Bug#401819: libswt3.2-gtk-jni: Install fails as package attempts to overwrite self

Moshe Yudkowsky speech at pobox.com
Wed Dec 6 04:19:14 UTC 2006


Package: libswt3.2-gtk-jni
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Installation fails:

# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libswt3.2-gtk-jni
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libswt3.2-gtk-jni
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
13 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/196kB of archives.
After unpacking 778kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 301496 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libswt3.2-gtk-jni (from .../libswt3.2-gtk-jni_3.2.1-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libswt3.2-gtk-jni_3.2.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/jni/libswt-atk-gtk-3235.so', which is also in package libswt-gtk-3.2-jni
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libswt3.2-gtk-jni_3.2.1-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Please let me know if you need additional information.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)




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