www:/var/log# apt-get install postgresql-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: postgresql-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/87.1kB of archives. After unpacking 316kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... postgresql-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 (Reading database ... 38875 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking postgresql-common (from .../postgresql-common_57_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql-common_57_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql-common_57_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)