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Whenever I run something through APT at the command line I get the following error message:

Setting up doc-base (0.10.6) ...
Processing 2 added doc-base files...
Cannot open file `/usr/share/doc-base/python-openbabel-pybel' for reading: No such file or directory.
dpkg: error processing package doc-base (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 3
Setting up ballview (1.4.2+20140406-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 doc-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It started after I stupidly ran:

sudo rm /usr/share/doc-base/python-openbabel-pybel

in response to another error I had received after trying to reinstall BALLView (as an attempt at overcoming this problem):

Error while merging /usr/share/doc-base/python-openbabel-openbabel with /usr/share/doc-base/python-openbabel-pybel: format html already defined.
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Try running sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-openbabel. That file came from this package, and hopefully no errors will occur in reinstalling it.

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I had a similar issue and it was solved by running these commands:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/doc-base.*
sudo apt-get install doc-base

Discovered with help from this answer: Failing to install doc-base

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