package libaqofxconnect4 3.3.0+dfsg-1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libaqofxconnect.so.4.0.0', which is also in package libaqbanking-ofx0

[jask]

Environment
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Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

Repro Steps
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I attempted to install libaqbanking20-dev after libaqofxconnect4 had already been installed.

Expected Result
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dpkg installation of a package via 'apt-get' should not fail because of an already-installed package. 'apt-get' should find a conflict or possibly there shouldn't be a conflict between the packages.

Actual Result
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It stated that some file in libaqbanking20-dev already existed from libaqofxconnect4 and it could not overwrite it. The dpkg installation failed

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 23 09:00:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libaqofxconnect.so.4.0.0', which is also in package libaqbanking-ofx0
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libaqofxconnect4 3.3.0+dfsg-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: libaqbanking
Title: package libaqofxconnect4 3.3.0+dfsg-1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libaqofxconnect.so.4.0.0', which is also in package libaqbanking-ofx0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Where did you get the package libaqbanking-ofx0 from? And which version did it have? The only idea that comes to my mind is an artefact of a very outdated AqBanking installation.

Regards
  Micha

[jask (jaskiern)]

I would certainly guess that I was attempting to build GnuCash with "Direct Connect" OFX support with the instructions available at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian . Specifically, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian#Configuring_2 gives instructions to add some package information regarding 'libaqbanking-ofx0' to the source package for 'libaqbanking''s `debian/rules'

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

While we cannot support packages built from other sources than in our archive, I think it should be managable to include these Replaces/Conflicts lines in our packages.

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Hi,

The package libaqofxconnect4 within Debian will not get a "Conflicts:
libaqbanking-ofx0". Hence I added a "Conflicts: libaqofxconnect4" to the
according control file section mentioned in the [1]wiki page. So users
following those instructions will not run into the same problem again.

By the way: Users will have a Gnucash linked against the most current
AqBanking [2]soon. So the need for building packages from other sources
will vanish.

Regards
  Micha

1. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Debian#Configuring_2
2. http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-de/2008-June/005986.html

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

okay. I'm marking this bug as wontfix then, based on michas comments (who is one of the upstreams of the package)