I followed the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed and attempted to re- install ruby-rvm but the same problem occured. I'm new to this so perhaps I've made an error. Either way, here is the output.
$ sudo aptitude install ruby-rvm/precise-proposed The following packages will be upgraded: ruby-rvm 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 279 not upgraded. Need to get 713 kB of archives. After unpacking 548 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-proposed/universe ruby-rvm all 1.6.9-0ubuntu2.1 [713 kB] Fetched 713 kB in 8s (87.0 kB/s) Setting up ruby-rvm (1.6.9-0ubuntu2) ... dpkg-statoverride: error: syntax error: unknown group 'admin' in statoverride file dpkg: error processing ruby-rvm (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: ruby-rvm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up ruby-rvm (1.6.9-0ubuntu2) ... dpkg-statoverride: error: syntax error: unknown group 'admin' in statoverride file dpkg: error processing ruby-rvm (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ruby-rvm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/894311 Title: ruby-rvm's maintainer scripts expect the admin group to exist To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-rvm/+bug/894311/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs