Bug#336307: eclipse-platform: File/directory in 2 packages

Sat Nov 5 13:44:10 UTC 2005

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:57:38PM +0200, Michael Bergbauer wrote:
> Package: eclipse-platform
> Version: 3.1.1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> While installing eclipse3, I got the following error message:
> Unpacking eclipse-platform-common (from
> .../eclipse-platform-common_3.1.1-3_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/eclipse-platform-common_3.1.1-3_all.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop', which is
>  also in package eclipse-platform

Do you have eclipse-platform from eclipse 2.1.x installed ? The current
eclipse-platform definitely doenst contain an eclipse.desktop file.

Cheers,
Michael
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