timidity 2.13.2-19ubuntu1 error processing timidity (--configure)

[Marcos Wasem]

Dependency problem in Timidity package

This is the message I receive in terminal when running apt-get:

Setting up timidity (2.13.2-19ubuntu1) ...
 * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation... [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing timidity (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntustudio-audio:
 ubuntustudio-audio depends on timidity; however:
  Package timidity is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntustudio-audio (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 11 08:17:14 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: ubuntustudio-audio 0.28
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: ubuntustudio-meta
Title: package ubuntustudio-audio 0.28 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[chadwik (chadwik)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I'm changing this to package timidity as thats the package that is failing to install. This looks similar to bug 294313.

[chadwik (chadwik)]

This is actually a duplicate of bug 120810. If you check that bug report you can see the bug has been fixed in version 2.13.2-19ubuntu2, which is available in the repositories for intrepid. Workarounds are also mentioned in the comments.