package kodi-bin 16.1+dfsg1-2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/kodi', which is also in package kodi 16.1+dfsg1-2

[Aleksandar Dezelin]

My laptop hanged while I was running Android emulator.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: kodi-bin 16.1+dfsg1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-27.29-generic 4.8.1
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
AptOrdering:
 kodi:amd64: Install
 kodi-bin:amd64: Install
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 29 17:45:47 2016
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/kodi', which is also in package kodi 16.1+dfsg1-2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-27 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu1
 apt 1.3.1
SourcePackage: kodi
Title: package kodi-bin 16.1+dfsg1-2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/kodi', which is also in package kodi 16.1+dfsg1-2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This one is odd. On the surface, it looks like one of the few genuine package conflict bug reported in launchpad against kodi. But when I look at the file list of https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kodi/16.1+dfsg1-2/+build/10635522/+files/kodi-bin_16.1+dfsg1-2_amd64.deb then /usr/bin/kodi is not part of that package.

Are you sure these were official ubuntu packages?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

looks very similar to bug 1739463

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

FTR

bug 1645913
bug 1676010
bug 1739463
bug 1575241
bug 1740745

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

But in the end it unsurprisingly turns out to be more of the same as evidenced by DpkgTerminalLog.txt. It's not a bug in Ubuntu. Marking as invalid.

Don't install random packages off the internet, it's a really stupid and dangerous thing to do. And definitely don't come running to report a problem in Ubuntu afterwards when you managed to screw up your system because of it.