[pymvpa] python-mvpa installation issue

Christoph T. Weidemann ctw at cogsci.info
Tue Oct 27 23:40:51 UTC 2009


Hi all,

I have encountered the following error when trying to install
python-mvpa on the release candidate for Kubuntu 9.10.

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
CTW

$ sudo apt-get install python-mvpa
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-mvpa-lib
Suggested packages:
  python-nose python-lxml python-scikits-openopt python-rpy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-mvpa python-mvpa-lib
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4,270kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,159kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Selecting previously deselected package python-mvpa-lib.
(Reading database ... 211902 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python-mvpa-lib (from .../python-mvpa-lib_0.4.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking python-mvpa (from .../python-mvpa_0.4.2-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/python-mvpa_0.4.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mvpa-prep-fmri', which is also in
package python-mvpa-lib 0:0.4.2-1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-mvpa_0.4.2-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



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