package prelude-utils (not installed) failed to install/upgrade

[Noble Mushtak]

The following message came up on the crash report screen:

package prelude-utils (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/prelude/default/client.conf', which is also in package libprelude2v5 1.0.0-11.7ubuntu1

I have just upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I really don't know what this bug means, but after updating, it seems like a lot of things are crashing. This may had to do with the fact that my Ubuntu 18.04 upgrade was interrupted because I had to reboot after getting locked out of my computer during the upgrade.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: prelude-utils (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 27 19:05:10 2018
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/prelude/default/client.conf', which is also in package libprelude2v5 1.0.0-11.7ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-25 (123 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
 apt 1.6.1
SourcePackage: libprelude
Title: package prelude-utils (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/prelude/default/client.conf', which is also in package libprelude2v5 1.0.0-11.7ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Noble Mushtak (noble.mushtak)]

Actually, after reading the summary a bit more closely, I think the following two lines fixed the problem:

sudo apt purge libprelude2v5
sudo apt install prelude-utils

Sorry if this is not a very helpful bug report; it's just that making a bug report was suggested after the crash report came up, so I thought it was the appropriate course of action.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I believe prelude-utils should conflict with or break libprelude2v5.

 $ apt-cache show prelude-utils
Package: prelude-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.1.0-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libprelude
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Pierre Chifflier <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 126
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16), libgnutls30 (>= 3.5.6), libprelude23 (>= 4.1), ruby (<< 1:2.6~)
Breaks: libprelude2, libprelude23 (<< 4.1.0-1)
Replaces: libprelude2, libprelude23 (<< 4.1.0-1)
Filename: pool/universe/libp/libprelude/prelude-utils_4.1.0-4_amd64.deb
Size: 36296
MD5sum: ace6b7494fd07269a45a97ccfac4ead1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libprelude - 5.1.1-6

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libprelude (5.1.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * d/libpreludecpp12.symbols
    - Update symbols file for gcc 10 (Closes: #955194, #957467)
  * d/control
    - Add Breaks and Replaces for libprelude2v5 (Closes LP: #1767534)

 -- Thomas Andrejak <email address hidden> Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:07:24 +0200