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(No warranty supplied, not least because i've never used debian or ubuntu on anything that had more than a text console display)
The error sounds like it's bitching that it's not happy with something about the current install state
of packages - at a complete random guess (which is all this is) maybe something you tried to install before didn't end up being marked (as far as the package management stuff is concerned)
as properly installed and configured.
That's what the dpkg manual page ("man dpkg" or http://www.wlug.org.nz/dpkg(8) ) suggests:
"dpkg --configure package ... | -a | --pending
Reconfigure an unpacked package. If -a or --pending is given instead of package, all unpacked but unconfigured packages are configured."
So, and again this could well be wrong, I'd reckon try doing "dpkg --configure -a", if it's ubuntu with the graphical desktop you'll probably need to open a "terminal" window and do "sudo dpkg --configure -a" in it, which might just work or might ask stuff :
I hope this helps but I hope more someone who knows Linux/Ubuntu more than I do (my job's unix stuff but sadly only ancient no-graphics stuff on FreeBSD) Google might help with any error messages though, I think Ubuntu's got better forum answers than most linux distributions)