package snap (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.0.2

[Moughamir Mohamed]

Bug due to incomplete dist-upgrade installation

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: snap (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
AptOrdering:
 snap: Install
 snap: Configure
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 23 20:38:03 2016
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.0.2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-28 (361 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.2.10ubuntu1
SourcePackage: snap
Title: package snap (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.0.2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[El Samuels (wesamuels)]

I think mine was the same. Copied from terminal:

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wes@wes-Predator-G3620 ~> sudo apt install snap
[sudo] password for wes:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfaac0 linux-image-4.2.0-35-generic linux-image-extra-4.2.0-35-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  snap
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 375 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,708 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 snap amd64 2013-11-29-1ubuntu2 [375 kB]
Fetched 375 kB in 0s (705 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package snap.
(Reading database ... 390063 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../snap_2013-11-29-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking snap (2013-11-29-1ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/snap_2013-11-29-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.0.2
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/snap_2013-11-29-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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