Error related to kino reported by sudo apt-get upgrade

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

When issuing "sudo apt-get upgrade" or installing packages, and error is shown related to kino:

Error while merging /usr/share/doc-base/kino-en with /usr/share/doc-base/kino-fr: format html already defined.

I tried purging and reinstalling kino, but this errors always reappears.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: kino 1.3.4-1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-15.35-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Mar 6 10:53:20 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-28 (97 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: kino
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-05 (1 days ago)

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

I tried installing packages one by one, and octave-vrml gave an error:

sudo apt-get install octave-vrml
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  octave-vrml
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/375 kB of archives.
After this operation, 553 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package octave-vrml.
(Reading database ... 523118 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../octave-vrml_1.0.13-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking octave-vrml (1.0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for octave (3.8.0-5ubuntu4) ...
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/strings-1.1.0/strjoin.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/strings-1.1.0/base64decode.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/strings-1.1.0/base64encode.m shadows a core library function
warning: dx does not seem to be present some functionalities will be disabled
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/erfcinv.m shadows a built-in function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/expint.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/share/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/ellipke.m shadows a core library function
warning: function /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/specfun-1.1.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v49+/ellipj.oct shadows a built-in function
error: strcmp: nonconformant cell arrays
error: evaluating argument list element number 1
error: called from:
error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/fix_depends.m at line 46, column 9
error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/get_description.m at line 74, column 18
error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/private/rebuild.m at line 50, column 12
error: /usr/share/octave/3.8.0/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 495, column 25
dpkg: error processing package octave (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.5) ...
Processing 3 added doc-base files...
Error while merging /usr/share/doc-base/kino-en with /usr/share/doc-base/kino-fr: format html already defined.
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 octave
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

After trying all packages, I think it is octave-vrml that causes the problem, all the other packages installed fine. After octave-vrml failing I tried to install octave-zenity and it told me that it depended on octave but octave was not configured. Removing octave-vrml and octave-zenity, I tried to install octave-zenity again and it installed fine.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Closing, having seen this any more after updates.

[Aapo Rantalainen (aapo-rantalainen)]

Happens me with kino 1.3.4-2.1build2 and Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get purge kino
sudo apt-get install kino

Selecting previously unselected package kino.
(Reading database ... 655542 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../kino_1.3.4-2.1build2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking kino (1.3.4-2.1build2) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.7) ...
Processing 2 added doc-base files...
Error while merging /usr/share/doc-base/kino-en with /usr/share/doc-base/kino-fr: format html already defined.
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Setting up kino (1.3.4-2.1build2) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...

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I don't have these previously mentioned packages installed: octave-vrml octave-zenity octave .

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In debian bug tracker: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727148