Interestingly, I had the same problem. After multiple failures trying to install texlive-lang-french, I resorted to installing tetex-base, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, and tetex- frogg. These packages then basically installed the texlive packages without a hitch (including texlive-lang-french and texlive-latex-extra).
Hope this helps in solving the (dependency ?) problem... -- package texlive-lang-french 2007.dfsg.1-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs