xen-utils-3.1 seems to have a conflict with xen-utils-common

[bob_bob]

When I went to install xen-utils-3.1 in adept manager I kept getting error messages, however, nothing would show up as conflicting. When I finally resorted to using apt-get from the command line I saw that the two packages both claimed the same file.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 16 21:33:14 2007
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/xentrace_setmask', which is also in package xen-utils-common
Package: xen-utils-3.1 None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/xen-utils-3.1.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: xen-3.1
Title: package xen-utils-3.1 None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/xen-utils-3.1.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/xentrace_setmask', which is also in package xen-utils-common
Uname: Linux Sunny 2.6.22-9-xen #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 02:23:57 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[jvivenot (jvivenot)]

Had the same problem when installing ubuntu-xen-desktop.

Unpacking xen-utils-3.1 (from .../xen-utils-3.1_3.1.0-0ubuntu15_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xen-utils-3.1_3.1.0-0ubuntu15_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/xentrace_setmask', which is also in package xen-utils-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xen-utils-3.1_3.1.0-0ubuntu15_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@PoivreEtCell:~#

[pshaw (jcchurch)]

Same problem here. I was able to correct this by first removing the xen-utils-common package.

dpkg --purge xen-utils-common

And then I reinstalled ubuntu-xen-server. Good luck!