package pacman not installed failed to install/upgrade: tentata sovrascrittura di /usr/share/man/man6/pacman.6.gz presente anche nel pacchetto xscreensaver-data-extra 0:5.08-0ubuntu5

[Anyone]

Binary package hint: pacman

I was installing by Synaptic (error code 1).

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 24 22:55:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: tentata sovrascrittura di "/usr/share/man/man6/pacman.6.gz" presente anche nel pacchetto xscreensaver-data-extra 0:5.08-0ubuntu5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pacman (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: pacman
Title: package pacman (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: tentata sovrascrittura di "/usr/share/man/man6/pacman.6.gz" presente anche nel pacchetto xscreensaver-data-extra 0:5.08-0ubuntu5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Charles (homecomputer)]

packages pacman and xscreensaver-data-extra have same name for document file causing conflict with install.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. This issue is confirmed in Lucid.

black:~# apt-cache policy xscreensaver-data-extra pacman
xscreensaver-data-extra:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 5.08-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
     5.08-0ubuntu5 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr lucid/universe Packages
pacman:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 10-17ubuntu1
  Version table:
     10-17ubuntu1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr lucid/universe Packages

For the moment, if you want to play pacman then you'll have to uninstall xscreensaver-data :(