Comment 6 for bug 565407

i have the same issue on 64-bit when upgrading to karmic on 4/19/10.output of attempt to install fglrx below:

chris@void:~$ sudo apt-get install fglrx
[sudo] password for chris:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fglrx-amdcccle
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fglrx fglrx-amdcccle
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/34.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 110MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 277147 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fglrx (from .../fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...

[Warning] Uninstall : inst_path_default or inst_path_override
 does not exist in /etc/ati. This suggests that the ATI driver
 is not installed, the ATI driver is only partially installed,
 or the current ATI driver installed is an older version than the
 one this script was designed for. Both files listed above are
 required for determining where installed files are located.
 To force uninstallation of the driver by guessing where the
 uninstallation files are located, set the FORCE_ATI_UNINSTALL
 environment variable and re-run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh (this is not recommended).

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package fglrx-amdcccle.
Unpacking fglrx-amdcccle (from .../fglrx-amdcccle_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a8.723.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
chris@void:~$