Christian: It is, I would say, a correct kind of answer :) You will need to get the very latest updates (sudo apt-get update) and then install them (sudo apt-get upgrade). Doing this will install a very very new version of update-motd which does not have this bug. Did you try this? It worked for me.
If you did that, today, and it still fails to install, what does sudo apt-get -s upgrade -V output? Especially, what version of update-motd does it say it would install? Worst case, if you are still having issues, you might want to try sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get purge update-motd sudo apt-get install update-motd although I can't see why you'd need to do it that way. -- package update-motd 2.0-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398646 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs