Public bug reported: It looks like the example file wasn't decompressed during the installation.
``` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up bird2 (2.0.5-1+ubuntu19.04.1+deb.sury.org+1) ... Error: The new file /usr/share/doc/bird2/examples/bird.conf does not exist! dpkg: error processing package bird2 (--configure): installed bird2 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: bird2 ``` dpkg -L bird2: ``` /. /etc /etc/bird /etc/bird/envvars /etc/init.d /etc/init.d/bird /lib /lib/systemd /lib/systemd/system /lib/systemd/system/bird.service /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/bird /usr/lib/bird/prepare-environment /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/bird /usr/sbin/birdc /usr/sbin/birdcl /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/bird2 /usr/share/doc/bird2/NEWS.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/bird2/NEWS.gz /usr/share/doc/bird2/README.gz /usr/share/doc/bird2/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/bird2/copyright /usr/share/doc/bird2/examples /usr/share/doc/bird2/examples/bird.conf.gz /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/bird2 /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/bird.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/birdc.8.gz ``` cd /usr/share/doc/bird2/examples; sudo gzip -d bird.conf.gz; apt install -f ``` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up bird2 (2.0.5-1+ubuntu19.04.1+deb.sury.org+1) ... Creating config file /etc/bird/bird.conf with new version ``` ** Affects: bird2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840603 Title: Installation error with bird2 from ppa:cz.nic-labs/bird on Ubuntu 1804 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bird2/+bug/1840603/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs