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  1. Bug #707971
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 707971

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: package apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

This is because of the following line in apport.postinst
invoke-rc.d apport start

which fails if apport is already running.

As a workaround you can run the following commands in a terminal:
$ sudo stop apport
$ sudo apt-get update