Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

I might actually be able to offer a solution, but not without knowing what the errors actually are.

Can you run "apt-get install -f 2>&1 | tee apt-errors.log" and post the resulting apt-errors.log file somewhere, rather than just saying that you get "an error message"?

If you're having the sort of issue where two packages both think they own the same file, "dpkg-divert" can probably help; I'm not sure whether that's the problem you're having from the description, though.
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On May 10, 2015 3:11:15 PM EDT, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>Been quiet on the list.
>
>Upgrade from Ubuntu 14.10 to 15.04.  Apt seems to be hung up with 
>removing a single file - which is old and not needed.  But because of 
>this the upgrade is severely screwed up.  Not sure if it will boot
>again 
>properly.  I just downloaded an 15.04 iso to burn to a usbstick to act 
>as a rescue if needed.
>
>Package is octave3.2-info, for some reason it has dependencies on perl.
> 
>Perl is apparently used by a lot of packages in some way, and all of 
>these necessary packages are "half installed".  It got so bad that 
>dist-upgrade hung because there were too many errors.
>
>There is some sort of directory issue, which generates an error message
>
>if I attempt to apt-get remove octave3.2-info.
>I think, if I can remove or delete this file (and remove references to 
>it) perhaps the rest of the install will go through.  This, of course 
>sound 'dangerous' but I have run out of ideas.
>
>Any suggestions?  apt-get -f install returns the error message. apt-get
>
>remove returns the same error.  Looking for a few ideas. I'll try to
>use 
>some of them tonight to attempt a fix.  Got to visit Mom now...
>
>Regards,
>Bruce
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