package molly-guard 0.6.3 failed to install/upgrade: package molly-guard is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')

[Aditya Mirji]

package molly-guard is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')

Always getting this error when i try to reinstall molly-guard, this did not even when i tried to upgrade ubuntu version itself

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: molly-guard 0.6.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-116.163-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-116-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.30
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 26 20:45:58 2021
DuplicateSignature:
 package:molly-guard:0.6.3
 Setting up bzip2 (1.0.6-8ubuntu0.2) ...
 dpkg: error processing package molly-guard (--configure):
  package molly-guard is not ready for configuration
Ec2AMI: ami-7c22b41c
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-west-2a
Ec2InstanceType: t2.large
Ec2Kernel: unavailable
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ErrorMessage: package molly-guard is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
PackageArchitecture: all
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.6
 apt 1.2.32ubuntu0.2
SourcePackage: molly-guard
Title: package molly-guard 0.6.3 failed to install/upgrade: package molly-guard is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2021-03-26 (0 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.molly-guard.rc: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.molly-guard.run.d.10-print-message: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.molly-guard.run.d.30-query-hostname: [deleted]