Bug#64653: apt-get reports internal error

[eric pareja <xenos@tala.upm.edu.ph>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: important

I get E: Internal error, Could not perform immediate configuration
when running apt-get dselect-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade or any
other install.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux tala 2.2.12 #1 Thu Oct 14 09:29:24 EST 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.3-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10   2.95.2-9       The GNU stdc++ library