I just had the same problem when upgrading from 14.04 to 15.04. The workaround I did was following: 1. use dpkg --ignore-depends=ppp to install packages that directly depend on ppp: network-manager, network-manager-pptp, etc. 2. edit meta info of these packages in /var/lib/dpkg/status to point to ppp 2.4.5 from 2.4.6; 3. apt-get dist-upgrade; 4. download the source code: ppp_2.4.6.orig.tar.gz 5. follow the readme to configure/make and fix the type cast error; 6. use checkinstall to create the package and dpkg install; 7. update and a patch: 2.4.6-3.1ubuntu1 to it will be applied; 8. done.
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