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I haven't seen that issues, but I've had similar problems in the past when packages failed to install or uninstall completely. Try

dpkg --configure -a

as root to attempt to fix any improperly installed packages. As a last ditch effort you could try to force the install. Probably not the best practice, and doesn't fix whatever the underlying cause is, but I've had it work for me in the past

sudo apt-get install -f