re-installing kodi failed due to permssions in writing to addon.xml

[Davie Robertson]

sudo apt remove kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fonts-noto-hinted fonts-roboto-hinted kodi-bin kodi-data kodi-visualization-spectrum libcec4 libcrossguid0 libjs-iscroll libmicrohttpd12 libnfs8 python-imaging
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
  kodi
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 60.4 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 205125 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kodi (2:17.3+dfsg1-3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+17.10.20170810-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu5) ...
davidr@davidr-ASM100:~$ sudo apt install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  kodi-repository-kodi
The following NEW packages will be installed
  kodi kodi-repository-kodi
0 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/43.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 152 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Selecting previously unselected package kodi.
(Reading database ... 205115 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../kodi_2%3a17.3+dfsg1-3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking kodi (2:17.3+dfsg1-3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../kodi-repository-kodi_2%3a17.3+dfsg1-3_all.deb ...
Unpacking kodi-repository-kodi (2:17.3+dfsg1-3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kodi-repository-kodi_2%3a17.3+dfsg1-3_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kodi/addons/repository.xbmc.org/addon.xml', which is also in package kodi-data 2:17.3+dfsg1-3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kodi-repository-kodi_2%3a17.3+dfsg1-3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: kodi-repository-kodi (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 27 10:17:10 2017
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kodi/addons/repository.xbmc.org/addon.xml', which is also in package kodi-data 2:17.3+dfsg1-3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-06 (173 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.3, python3-minimal, 3.6.3-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.14, python-minimal, 2.7.14-2ubuntu1
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.24ubuntu1
 apt 1.5
SourcePackage: kodi
Title: package kodi-repository-kodi (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kodi/addons/repository.xbmc.org/addon.xml', which is also in package kodi-data 2:17.3+dfsg1-3
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-23 (3 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 1721914, 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.