package python-wxversion 2.8.9.1-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxversion.py', which is also in package python-wxgtk2.8

[LaserJock]

An apt-get upgrade failed with:

Unpacking replacement python-wxversion ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python-wxversion_2.8.9.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxversion.py', which is also in package python-wxgtk2.8

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxversion.py', which is also in package python-wxgtk2.8
Package: python-wxversion 2.8.9.1-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: wxwidgets2.8
Title: package python-wxversion 2.8.9.1-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxversion.py', which is also in package python-wxgtk2.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Jamin W. Collins (jcollins)]

Error returned by update-manager:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/python-wxversion_2.8.9.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxversion.py', which is also in package python-wxgtk2.8

[Broomer68 (jbezemer)]

also in i386

[nakki (titibanjekistan)]

me too in i386

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wxwidgets2.8 - 2.8.9.1-0ubuntu6

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wxwidgets2.8 (2.8.9.1-0ubuntu6) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Don't call dh_pycentral twice for each package (introduced in
    2.8.9.1-0ubuntu1). LP: #355455.
  * Call dh_pycentral for python-wxversion.
  * python-wxversion replaces earlier python-wxgtk2.8. LP: #355424.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:23:51 +0200