package snap (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.22.2+16.10

[Andy Bleaden]

Trying to install snap and there is an error

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: snap (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-37.39-generic 4.8.16
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-37-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
AptOrdering:
 snap:i386: Install
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 7 10:44:10 2017
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Preparing to unpack .../snap_2013-11-29-1ubuntu2_i386.deb ...
 Unpacking snap (2013-11-29-1ubuntu2) ...
 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/snap_2013-11-29-1ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.22.2+16.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snapd 2.22.2+16.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-23 (260 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta i386 (20160323)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu1
 apt 1.3.4
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 2.22.2+16.10
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-25 (105 days ago)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1571989, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Andy Bleaden (andybleaden)]

Ok sorry ...I thought this was for 16.04...should I mark it as resolved or
leave it as duplicate?

On 7 February 2017 at 18:10, Hans Joachim Desserud <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1571989 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571989
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
> duplicate of bug 1571989, so it is being marked as such. Please look at
> the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you
> can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
> Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in
> the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may
> find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1571989
> package snapd (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to
> overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snap
> 2013-11-29-1ubuntu2
>
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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

>I thought this was for 16.04...

If you look at bug 1571989, you can see at the top that the bug is present in (affects) multiple releases. Since the bug wasn't caught and fixed earlier, it happens in multiple recent releases. You can also follow the tasks for Xenial and Yakkety (that is 16.04 and 16.10, respectively).