[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#670609: Installation failure

Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos eftaxi12 at otenet.gr
Fri Apr 27 09:40:20 UTC 2012


Package: libinsighttoolkit4-dev
Version: 4.1.0-1
Severity: grave

Hello,
The package fails to be installed due to a man page being included in
libinsighttoolkit3-dev 3.20.1-5 as well. The error message is:

:~$ sudo aptitude install libinsighttoolkit4-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libinsighttoolkit4-dev 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/5655 kB of archives. After unpacking 25.7 MB will be used.
(Reading database ... 388004 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libinsighttoolkit4-dev (from .../libinsighttoolkit4-dev_4.1.0-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libinsighttoolkit4-dev_4.1.0-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/insighttoolkit.3.gz', which is also in package libinsighttoolkit3-dev 3.20.1-5
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libinsighttoolkit4-dev_4.1.0-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Regards
Dimitris

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=el_GR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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