Thanks for your bug report and help to make ubuntu better. I'm not very sure of what happened as the weird message seems a rather broken dpkg output or something related (no trace in DpkgTerminalLog). Can you try to dist-upgrade to latest version (there is a recent one) to check if the error still occurs, please?
** Changed in: unity-place-applications (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705717 Title: package unity-place-applications (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs