package sandboxgamemaker 2.7.1+dfsg-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4

[NickNackGus]

I set up a script to install all of my software several months ago. Running "apt-get --assume-yes install sandboxgamemaker" usually installs the program without problems. However, I chose to download the official, nonfree content as well, and my Wi-Fi signal was terrible. It downloaded from 11PM to at least 8AM. Looking at the terminal output, it could not maintain a connection with the server, and continued downloading from the last unsuccessful section of the file. After nine hourse, when I noticed it had been installing one package all night, I recieved an error from outside my script informing me that the package failed to install. Should I purge the package and start from scratch?

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: sandboxgamemaker 2.7.1+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic-pae 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 22 04:09:12 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
SourcePackage: sandboxgamemaker
Title: package sandboxgamemaker 2.7.1+dfsg-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Hello,

you can try:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

and the script should pick up where it left off (won't have to download the content you already have downloaded)

[NickNackGus (nicknackgus)]

Thanks for the help! I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I should be able to get to it by the end of the week. My script already finished installing the rest of my system, essentially by calling...

apt-get --assume-yes install [something]

...over a hundred times. Toward the beginning it installs anything that requires my input, lets me know I can walk away, and adds additional sources. Because of this, all my other programs installed without fail. If I also consider the fact that I ran this script three times in the last week without error, I'd say this bug is pretty rare. I blame my Wi-Fi signal... silly thing keeps dropping to 11kiB/s.

[NickNackGus (nicknackgus)]

Now I've tried running:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

but all that showed up on the following line was a prompt for a new command. I then tried:

sudo apt-get install sandboxgamemaker

which said it was already installed, and no changes were made. I then tried to purge the package, but the terminal said it couldn't find a package by that name, even though I just copied the line above, replacing "install" with "purge".