Conflicts with amd64-microcode

[Removed by request]

On my system amd64-microcode is installed and on upgrading linux-firmware to version 1.100 I'm getting the following error:

sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-firmware
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/21.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 815 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 90931 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-firmware 1.99 (using .../linux-firmware_1.100_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-firmware ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.100_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin', which is also in package amd64-microcode 1.20120910-2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.100_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Maybe linux-firmware should remove amd64-microcode if it is already included.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

You may need to run the following:

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

Then re-install the package.

If that does not resolve your issue, please mark the bug as "Confirmed"

[Removed by request (removed3425744)]

This doesn't work but theoretically I have just to remove amd64-microcode to get all working again. But this is not the main problem. I'm wondering why linux-firmware doesn't declare to remove amd64-microcode in its control file.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

amd64-microcode was never part of the Ubuntu archive. Therefore, no Conflicts statements in the control file.

[Removed by request (removed3425744)]

http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/ is listing amd64-microcode as a package in the Ubuntu archive.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq (pqwoerituytrueiwoq)]

if the fix was committed, why did linux-firmware not try to remove amd64 microcode when i updated this laptop today (long over due, but it had not been on), it is running raring 64bit xubuntu

[Removed by request (removed3425744)]

The fix was commited but not released. You have to wait a little more until the fix is in the repository.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.102

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linux-firmware (1.102) raring; urgency=low

  * Updated asihpi firmware from http://www.audioscience.com/internet/download/drivers/released/v4/08/00/hpklinux-4.08.00.tar.bz2
    -LP: #1122377
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:47:25 -0700