package torque-client (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/qalter', which is also in package gridengine-client 0:6.2u4-2ubuntu1

[Gautham Vignesh]

Binary package hint: torque-client

Give proper solution for my problem...

Regards,
B.Gautham Vignesh

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: torque-client (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 4 16:08:54 2010
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/qalter', which is also in package gridengine-client 0:6.2u4-2ubuntu1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: torque
Title: package torque-client (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/qalter', which is also in package gridengine-client 0:6.2u4-2ubuntu1

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Steffen Möller (moeller-debian)]

The two are in conflict, indeed. The debian package I found to explicitly mention the conflict at least since 2.4.9. Most groups will only have a single queueing system, but, hey, at least during a transition period the installation of both is not unlikely. So, this conflict is truly unfortunate. I do not have any good solution. The alternative system does not apply since this would require the different queues to actually have the same semantics between different queueing system. qsub is also with sge, no? Bug 694572 reports the same problem.