Bug#537824: grub-pc: trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/update-grub', which is also in package grub-legacy

Anders Lagerås anders.lageras at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 08:15:54 UTC 2009


Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090709-1
Severity: important

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When trying to install grub2 together with the old grub, as suggested,  do I get this error message:
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_1.96+20090709-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/update-grub', which is also in package grub-legacy
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_1.96+20090709-1_amd64.deb

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.27          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20090709-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.9-12          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                      3.0018          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian Deskto
pn  genisoimage                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

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