vlc installation crashes on vlc ppa mastar daily added

[Alejandro Mesa]

These steps were followed:

1. Added the VideoLan master daily PPA repository (https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/ubuntu/master-daily). Made for testing purpose:

$ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:videolan/master-daily

2. Refreshed de repositories information:

$ sudo apt-get update

3. Installed the latest "vlc" package and others related:

$ sudo apt-get install vlc libmpg123-0 libvlc-bin libvlc5 libvlccore8 vlc vlc-bin vlc-data vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization

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Error displayed (spanish):

Desempaquetando libvlccore8:amd64 (3.0.0~~git20171210+r73147+99~ubuntu17.10.1) sobre (2.2.6-6) ...
dpkg: error al procesar el archivo /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-wwHSGo/18-libvlccore8_3.0.0~~git20171210+r73147+99~ubuntu17.10.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 intentando sobreescribir `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvlccore.so.9.0.0', que está también en el paquete libvlccore9:amd64 4.0.0~rc1~~git20180311+r74764+128~ubuntu17.10.1
dpkg-deb: error: el subproceso copiado fue terminado por la señal (Tubería rota)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: libvlccore8 2.2.6-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 12 04:02:24 2018
ErrorMessage: intentando sobreescribir `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvlccore.so.9.0.0', que está también en el paquete libvlccore9:amd64 4.0.0~rc1~~git20180311+r74764+128~ubuntu17.10.1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-11 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
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
SourcePackage: vlc
Title: package libvlccore8 2.2.6-6 failed to install/upgrade: intentando sobreescribir `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvlccore.so.9.0.0', que está también en el paquete libvlccore9:amd64 4.0.0~rc1~~git20180311+r74764+128~ubuntu17.10.1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Please report this issue to the maintainer of the PPA.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Exactly, this is not a crash, it just needs a purge of the package, and this is advertised even in the ppa.

https://code.launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/ubuntu/master-daily

I edited the ppa description to be even more verbose, maybe some day somebody will read it

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

BTW now I disabled builds for xenial and artful, now the bionic packaging is mostly bit-bit identical with the Debian and Ubuntu bionic versions, this won't happen probably for some time