Comment 11 for bug 173118

Update manager says I have updates. I click on update manager, it says slocate needs to be updated, I click "Install Updates." It quickly returns saying, "E: /var/cache/apt/archives/slocate_3.1-1.1ubuntu1_amd64.deb: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1"

Thereafter, in the window titled "Changes Applied," the heading says "Update is complete" and the message says, "Not all changes and updates succeeded. For further details of the failure, please expand the 'terminal' panel below."

Unfortunately, after clicking on 'Details' to expand the terminal window, I can high-light the text but I am unable to figure out how to copy and paste from that terminal. So I'll finger peck in here what I think might be useful:

....
...Preparing to replace slocate 3.1-1ubuntu3 (using .../slocate_3.1-1.1ubun...etc ...
...====Error. The following diversions still exist :
diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.notslocate by slocate
<same as above but switch locate with updatedb>
<same modification as above to /usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz>
<same modification as above to /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.1.gz>
....
Then the output ends with the same error from dpkg as referenced in my first paragraph above, about returning error code of (1).

I am sorry but I don't recall what files are needed to be attached to help you diagnose this issue.