Please ignore my report and close this bug report. I no longer regard this as a bug because a trivial fix exists.
Opening Synaptic Package Manager and the application reports a broken package. Using the application to fix that broken package does not actually resolve the issue. However by simply marking the libperl5 package for re-installation, accepting the prompt to do the same for it's dependents and then applying this change does resolve the issue. Also, accept my apologies for wasting anyone's time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to perl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773152 Title: Error updating xubuntu 18.04 LTS bionic. Cannot overwrite libperl5.26:i386 Status in perl package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Whenever I try to update my system, the following error message is reported; E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libperl5.26_5.26.1-6_i386.deb: trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libperl5.26/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libperl5.26:i386 The error survives any attempt I make to fix broken packages as advised if I try to perform and apt-get update operation in a terminal window. The text of the pasted into the window above was displayed in a pop-up window when using Synaptic Package Manager to perform an update of the system. Below is the full text displayed in the 'Details' section of the package manager; (Reading database ... 214046 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libperl5.26_5.26.1-6_i386.deb ... Unpacking libperl5.26:i386 (5.26.1-6) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libperl5.26_5.26.1-6_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libperl5.26/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libperl5.26:i386 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libperl5.26_5.26.1-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsnmp30:i386: libsnmp30:i386 depends on libperl5.26 (>= 5.26.0~rc1); however: Package libperl5.26:i386 is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libsnmp30:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libhpmud0:i386: libhpmud0:i386 depends on libsnmp30 (>= 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu3~dfsg); however: Package libsnmp30:i386 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libhpmud0:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsane-hpaio:i386: libsane-hpaio:i386 depends on libhpmud0; however: Package libhpmud0:i386 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libsane-hpaio:i386 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libsnmp30:i386 libhpmud0:i386 libsane-hpaio:i386 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/+bug/1773152/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
