libpostproc52 does not support multiarch

[James Elian]

Not really much else to say... it's reverse dependencies support multiarch, this doesn't, and it used to.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: libpostproc52 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-7.26-generic 3.13.1
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 6 17:00:32 2014
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Preparing to unpack .../libsystemd-journal0_204-5ubuntu11_amd64.deb ...
 Unpacking libsystemd-journal0:amd64 (204-5ubuntu11) over (204-5ubuntu10) ...
 Preparing to unpack .../gir1.2-gudev-1.0_1%3a204-5ubuntu11_amd64.deb ...
 Unpacking gir1.2-gudev-1.0 (1:204-5ubuntu11) over (1:204-5ubuntu10) ...
DuplicateSignature: package:libpostproc52:(not installed):libpostproc52:amd64 6:0.git20120821-4 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libpostproc52 which has multiple installed instances
ErrorMessage: libpostproc52:amd64 6:0.git20120821-4 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libpostproc52 which has multiple installed instances
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-09 (120 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
SourcePackage: libpostproc
Title: package libpostproc52 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: libpostproc52:amd64 6:0.git20120821-4 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libpostproc52 which has multiple installed instances
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-02-06 (1 days ago)

[dino99 (9d9)]

Comments from the synaptic details:

The upsream development for this library has stalled. Please consider porting existing applications to better alternatives.

[Julien Aubin (gojulgarbmail)]

Same issue there

[Julien Aubin (gojulgarbmail)]

Workaround :
sudo dpkg --purge libpostproc52:i386

Then reinstall libpostproc52.

Rgds,

[Martin Dauskardt (md001)]

during the upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04. I got this error which stopped the upgrade

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Archivs /var/cache/apt/archives/libpostproc52_6%3a0.git20120821-4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 libpostproc52:amd64 6:0.git20120821-4 (Multi-Arch: no) kann nicht zusammen mit libpostproc52 installiert werden, welches mehrere installierte Instanzen hat

The workaround described by Julien helped.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that report as per #5 comment above, as it appear related to old installation config