package gnome-applets-data (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES', which is also in package language-selector-common 0.129.3

[sriyan]

Multiple errors on sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-applets-data (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-44.59~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt14
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-44-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 24 15:47:50 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:gnome-applets-data:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES', which is also in package language-selector-common 0.129.3
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES', which is also in package language-selector-common 0.129.3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-28 (26 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
Title: package gnome-applets-data (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES', which is also in package language-selector-common 0.129.3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES should be a directory, not a file. Something was broken on your system, assuming that is no longer actual.