Comment 2 for bug 1047302

It seems to me that the backstory related about my timidity problem may be quite irrelevant; other users have also reported similar problems installing timidity. Looking at the terminl o/p for the attempted install, it seems that a certain pre-installation script has failed to run properly, causing the timidity install to abort. And then, because timidity is a dpendency for timidity-daemon, this latter can't install either. Anyone come across this before? And is there a simple fix?