With the corrected package name - error seems to yet persist... (All thanks to Update Notifier getting caught in the gears of Aptitude working. gggrrrr..... head shaking... do I need to open a separate bug against what I observed Update Notifier doing here?)
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall mono-jit libmagickcore1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1654kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main libmagickcore1 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1 [1654kB] Fetched 1654kB in 3s (418kB/s) (Reading database ... 121375 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libmagickcore1 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1 (using .../libmagickcore1_7%3a6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libmagickcore1 ... Setting up mono-jit (2.0.1-4ubuntu0.1) ... update-alternatives: error or eof reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/cli for update_mode () dpkg: error processing mono-jit (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up libmagickcore1 (7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: mono-jit E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Loaded new 9.04 box, applied updates, libmagickcore1 and mono-jit have issues https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448268 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs