package libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Mark Shuttleworth]

I did a mass reinstall just to see what problems got thrown up, and I think this installation issue was one of them.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-6.34-generic 2.6.38-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 13 07:30:09 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
SourcePackage: pango1.0
Title: package libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2010-07-20 (240 days ago)

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

Well, I wandered past this bug, looking for something else, and I see it's a dupe of fixed bug 703230. The culprit was this, in DpkgTerminalLog.txt:

  Preparing to replace libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-3 (using .../libpango1.0-0_1.28.3-4ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
  rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/doc/libpango1.0-0': Is a directory

Thanks.