unable to make /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme: No such file or directory

[Bernd Schubert]

Binary package hint: oxygen-cursor-theme

root@bathl:/# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

root@bathl:/# apt-cache policy oxygen-cursor-theme

oxygen-cursor-theme:
  Installed: 0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

Setting up oxygen-cursor-theme (0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing oxygen-cursor-theme (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oxygen-cursor-theme
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up oxygen-cursor-theme (0.0.2008-07-07-svn824849-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-cursor-theme: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing oxygen-cursor-theme (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oxygen-cursor-theme
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[nate (enatefox)]

It needs to symlink the icon folder which has the version at the end of the name.
~# ln -s /usr/share/icons/default.kde4 /usr/share/icons/default
is what is needed and it works perfectly afterwards.