package google-gadgets-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/google-gadgets/modules/dbus-script-class.so', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

[allen daniell]

tried to install google gadgets in ubuntu 10.04. system said there was an error. below is the error report. sorry about the formatting being lose in the copy/paste.

nstallArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
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(Reading database ... 90%
(Reading database ... 95%
(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 184237 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking libggadget-1.0-0b (from .../libggadget-1.0-0b_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libggadget-1.0-0b_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libggadget-dbus-1.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Unpacking google-gadgets-common (from .../google-gadgets-common_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-common_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/google-gadgets/modules/dbus-script-class.so', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Unpacking google-gadgets-gst (from .../google-gadgets-gst_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-gst_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/google-gadgets/modules/gst-audio-framework.so', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

Unpacking google-gadgets-xul (from .../google-gadgets-xul_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-xul_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/google-gadgets/gtkmoz-browser-child', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Unpacking libggadget-gtk-1.0-0b (from .../libggadget-gtk-1.0-0b_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libggadget-gtk-1.0-0b_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libggadget-gtk-1.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Unpacking google-gadgets-gtk (from .../google-gadgets-gtk_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-gtk_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/ggl-gtk.desktop', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...

Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...

Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.UTF8.cache...

Processing triggers for python-support ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/libggadget-1.0-0b_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

 /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-common_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

 /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-gst_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

 /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-xul_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

 /var/cache/apt/archives/libggadget-gtk-1.0-0b_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

 /var/cache/apt/archives/google-gadgets-gtk_0.11.2-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: google-gadgets-common (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 17 21:12:32 2010
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/google-gadgets/modules/dbus-script-class.so', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2
SourcePackage: google-gadgets
Title: package google-gadgets-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/google-gadgets/modules/dbus-script-class.so', which is also in package google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you were not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories (google-gadgets 0:0.10.0-0ubuntu0~ppa2). Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!
If you are interested in learning more about software repositories and Ubuntu the following pages should be informative:
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/components - information about Ubuntu repositories
2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories - information regarding managing repositories.

[allen daniell (allen-daniell33)]

yea you are right. i installed the package from google in ubuntu 8.04 then i
upgrade to 10.04 and it stopped working. i thought that i had been lost in
the upgrade, so i tried to reinstall it from the software center and got the
error. i figured out that it was still installed but not working properly.
after i used the synaptic package manager to uninstall the partial package i
use it to reinstall it from the repository. it works fine now.

thank you for your quick investigation and reply, it is greatly
appreciated!!!!