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[Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722@xxxxxx>]

This can be fixed with `sudo mv /usr/share/man/man1/perl5.20.2.1.gz /tmp
&& sudo apt-get install -f`

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Title:
  perl-base fails to install due to " unable to make backup symlink for
  './usr/share/man/man1/perl5.20.2.1.gz': No such file or directory"

Status in perl package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  complete output:

      $ sudo apt-get install -f 
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree       
      Reading state information... Done
      Correcting dependencies... Done
      The following extra packages will be installed:
        perl-base perl-modules
      Suggested packages:
        libb-lint-perl libcpanplus-dist-build-perl libcpanplus-perl libfile-checktree-perl liblog-message-simple-perl liblog-message-perl libobject-accessor-perl
      Recommended packages:
        libarchive-extract-perl libpod-latex-perl libterm-ui-perl libtext-soundex-perl libpackage-constants-perl
      The following packages will be upgraded:
        perl-base perl-modules
      2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
      2 not fully installed or removed.
      Need to get 0 B/3.696 kB of archives.
      After this operation, 1.541 kB of additional disk space will be used.
      Do you want to continue? [J/n] j
      (Reading database ... 852329 files and directories currently installed.)
      Preparing to unpack .../perl-base_5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
      Unpacking perl-base (5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1) over (5.20.2-6) ...
      dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
       unable to make backup symlink for './usr/share/man/man1/perl5.20.2.1.gz': No such file or directory
      No apport report written because the error message indicates an issue on the local system
                                                                                               Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.4-1) ...
      Errors were encountered while processing:
       /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.20.2-6ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: perl-base 5.20.2-6
  Uname: Linux 4.3.3-040303-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jan 23 03:47:27 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-20 (277 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
  SourcePackage: perl
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-26 (88 days ago)

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