Thinkpad Fn Key buttons package - "tpb" - Errors during install

[Chris Turner]

I've been trying to customise my Ubuntu install to integrate better with
my IBM R50 thinkpad and my first attempt has crashed and burned :(
I tried installing the "tpb" package but it fails with the following
output:-

@ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get install tpb
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tpb
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/48.1kB of archives.
After unpacking 238kB of additional disk space will be used.

Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package tpb.
(Reading database ... 75912 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tpb (from .../archives/tpb_0.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tpb (0.6.2-1) ...
chown: failed to get attributes of `/dev/nvram': No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing tpb (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tpb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


The only changes I have made thus far to my apt source list is adding
universe and multiverse.

If anyone can offer me any advice on where to look to resolving this be
grateful for the help.

Thanks,

Chris