Bug#329832: Installation fails: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd', which is also in package gconf2

Thijs Kinkhorst kink at squirrelmail.org
Fri Sep 23 18:08:28 UTC 2005


Package: gconf2
Version: 2.10.1-3
Severity: important


The following extra packages will be installed:
  gconf2-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gconf2-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gconf2
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 1273kB of archives.
After unpacking 651kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main gconf2-common 2.10.1-3 [1159kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main gconf2 2.10.1-3 [114kB]
Fetched 1273kB in 2s (441kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gconf2-common.
(Reading database ... 160783 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gconf2-common (from .../gconf2-common_2.10.1-3_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gconf2-common_2.10.1-3_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd', which is also in package gconf2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace gconf2 2.10.1-2 (using .../gconf2_2.10.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gconf2 ...
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/gconf/2': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/etc/gconf': Directory not empty
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gconf2-common_2.10.1-3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
pn  gconf2-common                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.10.1-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.0-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.12.2-3 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libxml2                       2.6.22-1   GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-4  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.6.10-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 

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