Comment 6 for bug 448268

With the corrected package name - error seems to yet persist... (All thanks to Update Notifier getting caught in the gears of Aptitude working. gggrrrr..... head shaking... do I need to open a separate bug against what I observed Update Notifier doing here?)

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall mono-jit libmagickcore1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main libmagickcore1 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1 [1654kB]
Fetched 1654kB in 3s (418kB/s)
(Reading database ... 121375 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libmagickcore1 7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1 (using .../libmagickcore1_7%3a6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libmagickcore1 ...
Setting up mono-jit (2.0.1-4ubuntu0.1) ...
update-alternatives: error or eof reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/cli for update_mode ()
dpkg: error processing mono-jit (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up libmagickcore1 (7:6.4.5.4.dfsg1-1ubuntu3.1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mono-jit
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)