Public bug reported: Was being installed as a dependency of nxagent, but failed.
rmall...@rmallins-desktop:/etc/nxserver$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 rmall...@rmallins-desktop:/etc/nxserver$ rmall...@rmallins-desktop:/etc/nxserver$ apt-cache policy libxcompshad3 libxcompshad3: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1 Version table: 3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages 3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1~karmic1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages rmall...@rmallins-desktop:/etc/nxserver$ full attempted install: rmall...@rmallins-desktop:/etc/nxserver$ sudo apt-get install nxagent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: nvidia-kernel-common libxcompshad Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libxcompshad3 The following NEW packages will be installed libxcompshad3 The following packages will be upgraded: nxagent 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 2,126kB of archives. After this operation, 340kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe libxcompshad3 3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1 [25.4kB] Get: 2 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main nxagent 1:3.3.0-6-0ubuntu3~karmic1 [2,100kB] Fetched 2,126kB in 2s (986kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libxcompshad3. (Reading database ... 284527 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libxcompshad3 (from .../libxcompshad3_3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcompshad3_3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libXcompshad.so.3', which is also in package libxcompshad 0:3.2.0-1hardy1 Preparing to replace nxagent 3.2.0-1hardy1 (using .../nxagent_1%3a3.3.0-6-0ubuntu3~karmic1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement nxagent ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcompshad3_3.3.0-3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) rmall...@rmallins-desktop:/etc/nxserver$ ProblemType: Package AptOrdering: libxcompshad3: Install nxagent: Install libxcompshad3: Configure nxagent: Configure Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Nov 10 22:18:22 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libXcompshad.so.3', which is also in package libxcompshad 0:3.2.0-1hardy1 Package: libxcompshad3 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: nxcompshad Title: package libxcompshad3 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libXcompshad.so.3', which is also in package libxcompshad 0:3.2.0-1hardy1 Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64 ** Affects: nxcompshad (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-package -- trying "sudo apt-get install nxagent" package libxcompshad3 not installed failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libXcompshad.so.3 , which is also in package libxcompshad 0:3.2.0-1hardy1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480339 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs