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patch 2.5.9-5 failed to install/upgrade: package patch is already installed and configured

Asked by brianb

Binary package hint: patch

the bug resulted when trying to install the linux deb package download for the BBC realplayer linux version real10gold which generated this bug related patch

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: package patch is already installed and configured
Package: patch 2.5.9-5
SourcePackage: patch
Title: package patch 2.5.9-5 failed to install/upgrade: package patch is already installed and configured
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #398598.

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brianb (brianbailey10) said : 		#1
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Christoph Berg (myon) said : 		#2

This seems like a more general problem to me. Several packages are listed with errors, I would say either dpkg's status database is severly broken on this system, or the package manager is doing evil things.

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Christoph Berg (myon) said : 		#3

This is not a patch bug.

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