Package: libmpeg2-4 Version: 0.4.0b-4 Severity: normal
Previously, I had libmpeg2-3 installed, but no -dev package. I tried to install libmpeg2-4-dev. libmpeg2-3 was to be installed as a dependency. However, while unpacking, it complained that /usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0.0.0 could not be overridden. I don't know enough about dpkg internals to decipher this, but it looks like a bug to me. Here is the complete apt-get session: # apt-get install libmpeg2-4-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmpeg2-4 The following NEW packages will be installed: libmpeg2-4 libmpeg2-4-dev 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1003 not upgraded. Need to get 145kB of archives. After unpacking 516kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main libmpeg2-4 0.4.0b-4 [63.6kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main libmpeg2-4-dev 0.4.0b-4 [80.9kB] Fetched 145kB in 9s (15.7kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libmpeg2-4. (Reading database ... 177316 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmpeg2-4 (from .../libmpeg2-4_0.4.0b-4_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2-4_0.4.0b-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libmpeg2.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmpeg2-3 Selecting previously deselected package libmpeg2-4-dev. Unpacking libmpeg2-4-dev (from .../libmpeg2-4-dev_0.4.0b-4_i386.deb) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2-4_0.4.0b-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I was able to work around it by first explicitly removing libmpeg2-3. --Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11suspend2 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libmpeg2-4 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
