package electricsheep None failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/flam3-animate', which is also in package flam3

[Wayne Redmon]

Binary package hint: electricsheep

Package: electricsheep

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu.
---> Ubuntu 8.10

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
---> electricsheep:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.6.8-9ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2.7b10-0ubuntu1~ppa0 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.6.8-9ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages

3) What you expected to happen
---> Uninstalled electricsheep via Synaptic.
       Then, installed electricsheep after uninstallation.

4) What happened instead
---> Received error of "failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/flam3-animate', which is also in package flam3".

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/flam3-animate', which is also in package flam3
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Package: electricsheep None
SourcePackage: electricsheep
Title: package electricsheep None failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/flam3-animate', which is also in package flam3
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

flam3 does not seem to be a package in Ubuntu, so this is a problem with someone’s PPA, not an Ubuntu bug.