[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#533472: Bug#533472: closed by Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b at web.de> (Bug#533362: fixed in ia32-libs-tools 18)

[Philip J. Clark]

Dear Goswin,

Thank you for the very detailed comprehensive response.

> But before you do that could you send me the error you get when
> reinstalling ia32-apt-get?

# apt-get --reinstall install ia32-apt-get
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not 
upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/20.1kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
   ia32-apt-get
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Selecting previously deselected package ia32-apt-get.
(Reading database ... 224238 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ia32-apt-get 18 (using .../ia32-apt-get_18_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ia32-apt-get ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-apt-get_18_all.deb 
(--unpack):
  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/apt-get', which is also in package apt
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-apt-get_18_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-Phil
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