package libhtml-template-perl 2.9-1 failed to install/upgrade: package libhtml-template-perl is already installed and configured

[Mookiebud]

Binary package hint: libhtml-template-perl

Release 8.10

"apt-get policy packagename" returns; W: Unable to locate package packagename

This occured while performing an upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10. This is not the only crash report that occurred, there were several.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: package libhtml-template-perl is already installed and configured
Package: libhtml-template-perl 2.9-1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: libhtml-template-perl
Title: package libhtml-template-perl 2.9-1 failed to install/upgrade: package libhtml-template-perl is already installed and configured
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Something has probably gone wrong with a previous install.

You can solve this by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libhtml-template-perl

Let us known if this fixes your problem.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!