On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
Can you double check to make sure that you are installing the same
version for amd64 and i386? It looks like the version you have for
amd64 might be different from the version you are trying to install on
i386.
$ sudo apt-get remove libtiff4:i386
...
$ apt-show-versions |grep libtiff4
libtiff4/testing uptodate 3.9.6-9
$ sudo apt-get install libtiff4:i386=3.9.6-9
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libtiff4:i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/201 kB of archives.
After this operation, 514 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 169041 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libtiff4:i386 (from .../libtiff4_3.9.6-9_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff4_3.9.6-9_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared
'/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from
other instances of package libtiff4:i386
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff4_3.9.6-9_i386.deb
Hmm ...
$ <wget libtiff4 deb for each arch>
$ <dpkg -x each deb>
$ md5sum libtiff*/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
69013408b8c415bbfcfebebb442afae3
libtiff4_3.9.6-9_amd64/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
69013408b8c415bbfcfebebb442afae3
libtiff4_3.9.6-9_i386/usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
$ md5sum /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
e92a8f99ac326b5ce23231fa83907fd5 /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
Hmm ...
$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install libtiff4:amd64
...
$ md5sum /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
69013408b8c415bbfcfebebb442afae3 /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz
$ sudo apt-get install libtiff4:i386
<works fine now>
I have no idea how the changelog file had the wrong content, even though apt
thought it was the same version, but you're right, this was an error in my
installation somehow.
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