i just installed 10.04 on PowerBook G4 and the wireless driver doesn't
work out of the box (b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file
"b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed.).

a quick google led me to believe that installing the b43-fwcutter package might 
get me up and running.  trying to install b43-fwcutter from the Ubuntu Software 
Center gave:
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Package operation failed
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: Preconfiguring packages ...

Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.

Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.

.
.
.
b43-fwcutter failed to preconfigure, with exit status 128

Use of uninitialized value $val in substitution (s///) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 83.

Use of uninitialized value $val in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 84.

Preconfiguring packages ...

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

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is there a workaround for this bug?

if not, can this bug's importance be raised from "Medium"?  a laptop
without wireless is no fun :(

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debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit status 128 
- Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at 
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442941
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