package libasound2 1.0.27.2-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libasound2:i386

[Gerhard Bogner]

installing wine1.6 fails on saucy because libasound2:i386 can't be configured

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: libasound2 1.0.27.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-3.7-generic 3.11.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 26 13:32:22 2013
Dependencies:
 gcc-4.8-base 4.8.1-9ubuntu1
 libasound2-data 1.0.27.2-1ubuntu1
 libc6 2.17-91ubuntu1
 libgcc1 1:4.8.1-9ubuntu1
 multiarch-support 2.17-91ubuntu1
DuplicateSignature: package:libasound2:1.0.27.2-1ubuntu1:trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libasound2:i386
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libasound2:i386
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-16 (102 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: alsa-lib
Title: package libasound2 1.0.27.2-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libasound2:i386
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-07-27 (29 days ago)

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

I suggest re-installing libasound2:amd64 and libasound2-data, along with installing libasound2:i386.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

This indicates that you had an unofficial libasound2:amd64 package installed on your system. The official packages in the archive will have matching contents, so there will be no file mismatches causing unpack failures at install time.

As Luke indicates, reinstalling libasound2:amd64 will fix this problem. You can do this by running 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall libasound2:amd64' from the commandline.

[Joey Teo (joey-teo-yew-joe)]

can't seem to do as described hence it is a confirmed bug...

joey@joey-i7qm:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libasound2:amd64
[sudo] password for joey:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libc6-i386 libssl0.9.8
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libasound2
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 493 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/327 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 334940 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libasound2_1.0.27.2-3ubuntu7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libasound2:amd64 (1.0.27.2-3ubuntu7) over (1.0.27.2-1ubuntu6) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libasound2_1.0.27.2-3ubuntu7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libasound2:amd64
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libasound2_1.0.27.2-3ubuntu7_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)