dictionaries-common post-install script returns an error

Bug #1968433 reported by Samit Mohnot
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dictionaries-common (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ubuntu Release Info:
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release: 20.04
dictionaries-common Info:
dictionaries-common:
  Installed: 1.28.1
  Candidate: 1.28.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.28.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The post-install script should have completed, but I am getting:
sudo apt install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up dictionaries-common (1.28.1) ...
Processing triggers for dictionaries-common (1.28.1) ...
update-default-wordlist:
  Could not make the default symlink to "/usr/share/dict/american-english".
  This may be a temporary problem due to installation ordering. If that
  file is not present after installation, please file a bugreport
  against wordlist package owning that file.

dpkg: error processing package dictionaries-common (--configure):
 installed dictionaries-common package post-installation script subprocess retur
ned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dictionaries-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.28.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-39.44~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 9 13:31:15 2022
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Samit Mohnot (samthebest999) wrote :
Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → New
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