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I'm running into a very similar problem running ros-electric on ubuntu natty (11.04)

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walt@T5500:~$ sudo apt-get install openni-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
openni-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up openni-dev (1.1.0.41~natty) ...
Failed: Failed to write to the file!
dpkg: error processing openni-dev (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nite-dev:
 nite-dev depends on openni-dev (>= 1.1.0.41~natty); however:
  Package openni-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing nite-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ps-engine:
 ps-engine depends on openni-dev (>= 1.1.0.41~natty); however:
  Package openni-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ps-engine (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ros-electric-openni-kinect:
 ros-electric-openni-kinect depends on ps-engine; however:
  Package ps-engine is not configured yet.
 ros-electric-openni-kinect depends on nite-dev; however:
  Package nite-dev is not configured yet.
 ros-electric-openni-kinect depends on openni-dev; however:
  Package openni-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ros-electric-openni-kinect (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already igured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openni-dev
 nite-dev
 ps-engine
 ros-electric-openni-kinect
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
walt@T5500:~$