[clue-tech] apt-get (tzdata) on Ubuntu 7.10

[Jason S. Friedman]

Hello, how can I get past ...

Wpowerpull at love ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade tzdata
[sudo] password for powerpull:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
   python2.5 python2.5-minimal
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 4039kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main python2.5 
2.5.1-5ubuntu5.1 [2869kB]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main python2.5-minimal 
2.5.1-5ubuntu5.1 [1169kB]
Fetched 4039kB in 31s (127kB/s) 

Setting up tzdata (2007k-0ubuntu0.7.10.1) ...
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
  tzdata
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

powerpull at love ~ $ sudo apt-get install perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
perl is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up tzdata (2007k-0ubuntu0.7.10.1) ...
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
  tzdata
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)