Comment 1 for bug 88697

Additional info:
 I just ran adept from the K menu, ran 'fetch updates' and learned that adept is upgradable. I requested installation, and again got the same error.
  The popup window is labelled 'Debconf on rtg-laptop', the message requests an integer between '-20 and 19', and the active buttons are 'Help', 'Next>', and 'Cancel'. Help and Next do nothing, and Cancel aborts the entire installation (at 19% complete). A second popup appears, saying 'There was an error committing changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages"
  I'll certainly reinstall from scratch when herd 5 comes out, but in the meantime, is there a magic dpkg incantation I can run from the command line to force the install without nice'ing it?