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xpdf package

package xpdf-reader 3.02-9 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/xpdf.1.gz', which is also in package xpdf 3.02-9

Bug #635824 reported by Dave Boutcher on 2010-09-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #634928: package xpdf-reader 3.02-9 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/xpdf.1.gz', which is also in package xpdf 3.02-9. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xpdf (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xpdf

upgraded from 10.4 to 10.10 beta

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xpdf-reader 3.02-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 10 14:15:52 2010
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/xpdf.1.gz', which is also in package xpdf 3.02-9
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: xpdf
Title: package xpdf-reader 3.02-9 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/xpdf.1.gz', which is also in package xpdf 3.02-9

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Dave Boutcher (boutcher) wrote on 2010-09-11:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (14.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (604 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (102.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (97.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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bnet (brian-nettles) wrote on 2010-09-11:

When I received this message, I went into Synaptic Package Manager, received a broken link message, marked for reinstall to fix the depending problem. Once reinstalled the problem was solved.