Bug effects later upgrades as well. Update Manager tried today to upgrade 
libicu38 and produced the following in the details screen:
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(Reading database ... 188715 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libicu38 3.8.1-3ubuntu1 (using 
.../libicu38_3.8.1-3ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libicu38 ...
Setting up wget (1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing wget (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libicu38 (3.8.1-3ubuntu1.1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wget
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up wget (1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing wget (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wget
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Some information requested at earlier post that may be helpful:
pe...@lpno005:~$ dpkg -S `which install-info`
dpkg: /usr/local/bin/install-info not found.
pe...@lpno005:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/ins*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2009-08-13 11:25 /usr/local/bin/install-info -> 
/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/x86_64-linux/install-info
pe...@lpno005:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ins*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10584 2009-02-09 10:47 /usr/sbin/install-docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15854 2009-01-07 13:34 /usr/sbin/install-info
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 2009-06-24 16:30 /usr/sbin/install-menu -> 
../bin/install-menu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  4551 2004-10-26 18:33 /usr/sbin/install-sgmlcatalog
pe...@lpno005:~$ echo $PATH
/opt/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/bin/intel64:/opt/mpich2/bin:/home/peter/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/peter/bin

How to correct this so that future updates work?

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package wget 1.11.4-2ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
post-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444917
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