I apologise if this is not needed, but I think I have the same symptoms, 
pasting from konsole:
=====start=====
207 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
20 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/273MB of archives.
After unpacking 1352kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Extract templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 78349 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cupsys 1.3.2-1ubuntu1 (using 
.../cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386         .deb) ...
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd                           [ OK ]
Unpacking replacement cupsys ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb 
(-         -unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/CREDITS.txt', which is also in 
package libcupsys2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd                           [ OK ]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
=====end=====
HTH

Torc

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package cupsys 1.3.2-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess 
post-installation script returned error exit status 3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147900
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