package libuniconf4.6 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/uniconf.conf', which is also in package libuniconf4.4 0:4.4.1-1.1

[marco73f]

Unpacking replacement mplayer ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/lsb_release.py is linked but does not belong to any package.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libuniconf4.6_4.6-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 15:16:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/uniconf.conf', which is also in package libuniconf4.4 0:4.4.1-1.1
Package: libuniconf4.6 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: wvstreams
Title: package libuniconf4.6 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/uniconf.conf', which is also in package libuniconf4.4 0:4.4.1-1.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[marco73f (marco73f)]

After the failed upgrade, I tried this:

root@rachel:/var/log# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  wvdial: Depends: libuniconf4.6 but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
root@rachel:/var/log# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.31-10 hplip-cups libppl7 libcloog-ppl0 libaccess-bridge-java linux-headers-2.6.31-10-generic
  libgmpxx4ldbl libppl-c2 libgdl-1-2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libuniconf4.6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libuniconf4.6
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
95 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/181kB of archives.
After this operation, 467kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 178420 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libuniconf4.6 (from .../libuniconf4.6_4.6-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libuniconf4.6_4.6-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/uniconf.conf', which is also in package libuniconf4.4 0:4.4.1-1.1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libuniconf4.6_4.6-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[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 441846, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Spang (hetkot)]

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[Spang (hetkot)]

Sorry, something went terribly wrong in previous post.

I hava/had the same problem. For now:

  sudo dpkg -r libuniconf4.4
  sudo apt-get -f install

seems to somewhat fix it.

[Dominique Ramaekers (dominique-ramaekers)]

Thanks for this personal follow-up...

You were right, this fixed it...

Op zondag 04-10-2009 om 14:20 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Spang:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 441846 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441846
>
> Sorry, something went terribly wrong in previous post.
>
> I hava/had the same problem. For now:
>
> sudo dpkg -r libuniconf4.4
> sudo apt-get -f install
>
> seems to somewhat fix it.
>