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I'm on 14.04 LTS and found this as a duplicate of Bug #1497266 reported
by Lin Yu Han on 2015-09-18. I'm wondering why the fix for this bug has
not been tested and made available in more than the zesty (experimental)
repository?  Alec had a fix 2 years ago:

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-11-01:	#4
This bug was fixed in the package lirc - 0.9.4c-4

14.04 is still at 0.9.0-0ubuntu5, which does not install.  Everyone on
the Long Term Support release with a need for lirc is vulnerable.  I
attempted 'apt-get install inputlirc' naked, but that brings lirc and
this failure too.

I've tried to avoid using lirc, but receive no (EV_KEY) key events in
'ir-keytable -t' output.

root@dor:/home/kirke/DOR# ir-keytable 
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event10) with:
	Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
	Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other 
	Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other 
	Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared 
	bus: 3, vendor/product: 1784:0011, version: 0x0100
	Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms
root@dor:/home/kirke/DOR# ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
1551891292.693694: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1551891292.693694: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1551891292.714638: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0xb70076
1551891292.714638: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1551891292.739634: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1551891292.739634: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1551891292.759642: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0xb70076
1551891292.759642: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1551891292.784694: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x1f3f
1551891292.784694: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1551891292.884699: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0xb70076
1551891292.884699: event type EV_SYN(0x00).

Above is what I see after pressing the OK (Select) button.

I have the same remote and IR receiver working fine in the living room with lirc untouched under a 2014 install.  I want to transition both machines to 18.04, but have no confidence I'll
have a working remote control for mythtv.

Apparently, I've removed and purged lirc in a way that is confusing
packaging software's post install script.

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Title:
  package lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
  installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in lirc source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in lirc source package in Yakkety:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Thanks a lot....

  
  Alvaro Osuna
  Call me Tony

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Jul 21 19:31:42 2013
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-21 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: This
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: lirc
  Title: package lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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