tzdata fails to upgrade on Ubuntu 23.10

If you’re getting a dpkg error about tzdata prematurely exiting, you need to get this file:
Ubuntu – Package Download Selection — tzdata_2024a-0ubuntu0.23.10_all.deb

Afterwards, install with dpkg -i tzdata_2024a-0ubuntu0.23.10_all.deb

Afterwards, you can do apt upgrade to upgrade to the latest one in the apt repo that was failing.

Hope this helps someone!

dpkg: error processing package tzdata (–configure):
installed tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
tzdata
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed

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