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package cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 failed to install/upgrade: package cups is already installed and configured

Bug #603825 reported by Zayd on 2010-07-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #541595: [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dpkg (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dpkg

Source package: don't know (happened while installing updates via Update Manager which were automatically prompted after initial install of OS)

Release: 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx

Version of package: 0.63.1

I expected the system to automatically install updates

Instead, after initially downloading some 220-odd packages, the system hung; upon restart, I got this error report (pasted in summary section: automatically generated)

Hardware: Thinkpad T410 model 2518J9G
Ubuntu installed from within windows.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 10 00:56:52 2010
ErrorMessage: package cups is already installed and configured
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
SourcePackage: dpkg
Title: package cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 failed to install/upgrade: package cups is already installed and configured

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Zayd (marvin-the-paranoid) wrote on 2010-07-10:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (673 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (71.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (7.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-07-20:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 541595, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.