a@max-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install playonlinux Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done playonlinux is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 10 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up g++ (4:4.4.3-1ubuntu1) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing g++ (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of build-essential: build-essential depends on g++ (>= 4:4.3.1); however: Package g++ is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing build-essential (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up python-configobj (4.7.1-1) ... No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing python-configobj (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bzr: bzr depends on python-configobj; however: Package python-configobj is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bzr (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bzrtools: bzrtools depends on bzr (>= 2.1~); however: Package bzr is not configured yet. bzrtools depends on bzr (<= 2.2); however: Package bzr is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bzrtools (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.19ubuntu1) ... No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cmake-data: cmake-data depends on emacsen-common; however: Package emacsen-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cmake-data (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cmake: cmake depends on cmake-data (= 2.8.0-5ubuntu1); however: Package cmake-data is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cmake (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Setting up cvs (1:1.12.13-12ubuntu1) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing cvs (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up html2text (1.3.2a-14build1) ... No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing html2text (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: g++ build-essential python-configobj bzr bzrtools emacsen-common cmake-data cmake cvs html2text E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) a@max-laptop:~$