pycentral crashed with OSError in prepare() (after installation which didn't succeed.. completely)

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Setting up alacarte (0.11.4-0ubuntu1) ...
file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py
file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py
file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/__init__.py
file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/config.py
file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/util.py
pycentral: pycentral bccompile: error byte-compiling package `alacarte'
pycentral bccompile: error byte-compiling package `alacarte'
dpkg: error processing alacarte (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
 ubuntu-desktop depends on alacarte; however:
  Package alacarte is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 alacarte
 ubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 2 19:32:44 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pycentral
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: python-central 0.5.61ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/pycentral pkgprepare deskbar-applet
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/pycentral', 'pkgprepare', 'deskbar-applet']
SourcePackage: python-central
Title: pycentral crashed with OSError in prepare()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-10-generic i686
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