Install/upgrade failure when numix-gtk-theme PPA package present
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Numix GTK theme |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
shimmer-themes (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Numix is a popular theme. It's nice to see it available in Ubuntu proper, but since it is popular many people will have it installed from upstream's PPA. This leads to upgrade/install failures.
$ sudo apt-get install shimmer-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
shimmer-themes
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/306 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,878 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package shimmer-themes.
(Reading database ... 420170 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking shimmer-themes (from .../shimmer-
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
summary: |
- Please install Numix to a different directory or replace/conflicts the - numix-gtk-theme PPA package + Install/upgrade failure when numix-gtk-theme PPA package present |
In order to be able to really fix this bug, the package-structure of shimmer-themes would probably have to be changed, meaning that shimmer-themes would become a meta-package and all the themes separate packages. That mostly means more work for packagers.
While it is understandable that you want to use the latest version of Numix, there are two alternatives to your current route: /launchpad. net/~shimmerpro ject/+archive/ daily
1) use the shimmer-themes daily PPA: https:/
2) just pull directly from git into your ~/.themes folder
At least for 13.10, this is a wontfix from my side (also because it's too late in the cycle).