acroread install issue re man page?

[episkipos]

Binary package hint: acroread

Possible dup of #359518

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  acroread-debian-files{u} acroread-dictionary-de{u} acroread-l10n-de{u}
  libmozjs0d{u} libxul-common{u} libxul0d{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
  acroread
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/63.4MB of archives. After unpacking 48.1MB will be used.
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Removing acroread-dictionary-de ...
(Reading database ... 163812 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 (using .../acroread_9.1.0-7intrepid1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement acroread ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7intrepid1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7intrepid1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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Purged old files performed fresh install --> success

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2
SourcePackage: acroread
Title: package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 359518, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.