Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: iputils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516913
Title:
can't install arping due to conflicts with iputils-arping
Status in Linux Mint:
New
Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
This bug needs to be raised against the arping and iputils-arping
packages.
arping and iputils-arping both provide a binary called arping.
It is impossible to install arping as iputils-arping conflicts with
arping (and many other packages do as well)
arping provides capabilities that iputils-arping does not including
pinging a mac address among other things.
As the 2 versions of arping use conflicting options and offer
different functionality they should not both have the same name.
Even worse ifupdown-extra depends on arping while the iputils-* requires
iputils-arping.
This results in ifupdown-exta being uninstallable on a standard desktop
system (network manager depends on iputils-arping)
There are a number of bugs around regarding this, some dating back over 10
years.
eg:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arping/+bug/833546
Perhaps it is time for the two maintainers to merge their projects to solve
this for ever, or at least rename one of them.
simple solution would be rename arping package and binary to arp-ping
This system is Mint17 but this issue exits on all debian based systems
and probably other distros as well.
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