Sorry Paul. I wrote down exactly as you said and then typed something different and illogical.
Here is the latest result from Terminal:

geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for geoffrey:
root@geoffrey-desktop:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  evolution-common liberror-perl libevolution libgtkhtml-4.0-0
  libgtkhtml-4.0-common libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0 libmail-spf-perl
  libnetaddr-ip-perl libpst4 libsys-hostname-long-perl libytnef0
  linux-headers-3.13.0-24 linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-24-generic re2c
  sa-compile spamassassin spamc
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-default dbus dbus-x11 file
  flashplugin-installer ghostscript ghostscript-x language-pack-en
  language-pack-en-base language-pack-gnome-en language-pack-gnome-en-base
  language-selector-common language-selector-gnome libcompizconfig0
  libdbus-1-3 libdecoration0 libgs9 libgs9-common libmagic1 libminiupnpc8
  libnautilus-extension1a libunity-core-6.0-9 linux-libc-dev nautilus
  nautilus-data transmission-common transmission-gtk ubuntu-docs unity
  unity-services unity-settings-daemon
34 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,392 kB/13.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,124 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main language-pack-en all 1:14.04+20140707 [1,826 B] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main language-pack-en-base all 1:14.04+20140707 [457 kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main language-pack-gnome-en all 1:14.04+20140707 [1,848 B] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main language-pack-gnome-en-base all 1:14.04+20140707 [948 kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libnautilus-extension1a i386 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.2 [52.1 kB] Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main nautilus-data all 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.2 [50.9 kB] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main unity-settings-daemon i386 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu1 [498 kB] Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main unity i386 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 [1,417 kB] Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libunity-core-6.0-9 i386 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 [452 kB] Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main unity-services i386 7.2.1+14.04.20140513-0ubuntu2 [29.2 kB] Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main nautilus i386 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.2 [485 kB]
Fetched 4,392 kB in 21s (200 kB/s)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
root@geoffrey-desktop:~#


This makes interesting reading. The error report surfaced about a week ago when I tried to install a mathematical application called Octave which I had previously used with an earlier version of Ubuntu. Later I found the same error when updating.
Geoff


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