evince-common update error

[waspbloke]

New versions of evince and evince-common by the GNOME 3 team will not upgrade correctly from certain versions. We cannot easily fix this bug.

Workaround:
sudo apt-get install evince

I had the 'partial upgrade' bug and got round it with apt-get -f dist-upgrade. However, during the upgrade and now after a reboot I have this remaining package which fails to install.

(Reading database ... 148416 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace evince-common 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1 (using .../evince-common_3.0.0-4ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement evince-common ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/evince-common_3.0.0-4ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml', which is also in package evince 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/evince-common_3.0.0-4ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb
Setting up libbrasero-media3-1 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up evolution-data-server-common (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libgweather-3-0 (3.0.0-0ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libgtkhtml-4.0-common (4.0.0-1~build1) ...
Setting up libtracker-client-0.8-0 (0.8.17-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libebackend-1.2-1 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up brasero-cdrkit (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libgtkhtml-4.0-0 (4.0.0-1~build1) ...
Setting up libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0 (4.0.0-1~build1) ...
Setting up liblqr-1-0 (0.4.1-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libcamel-1.2-23 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up evolution-common (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libmagickcore3 (7:6.6.2.6-1ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libebook1.2-10 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up brasero (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libedata-cal-1.2-11 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libedataserverui-3.0-0 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up dvdauthor (0.7.0-1) ...
Setting up libedata-book-1.2-9 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up libevolution (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up evolution-data-server (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Setting up evolution (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/xdg/autostart/evolution-alarm-notify.desktop ...
Setting up evolution-plugins (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

A new version of evince was uploaded about 6 hours ago by the GNOME 3 team - please check to see if this fixes the issue.

[Christopher Reimer (c-reimer1993-deactivatedaccount)]

The problem is fixed for me. Everything works fine now.

[waspbloke (david-emmo)]

Nope, still getting exact same error message here. :(

[Erick Brunzell (lbsolost)]

What I had to do to resolve this was open Synaptic and first purge both 'evince' and 'evince-common' which removes the 'ugr-desktop-g3' meta-package:

Commit Log for Sat May 21 09:19:58 2011

Completely removed the following packages:
evince
evince-common

Removed the following packages:
ugr-desktop-g3

After that I reinstalled the 'ugr-desktop-g3' meta-package which resolved the issue:

Commit Log for Sat May 21 09:21:44 2011

Removed the following packages:
libevdocument3
libevview3

Installed the following packages:
evince (3.0.0-4ubuntu2~natty1)
evince-common (3.0.0-4ubuntu2~natty1)
libevince3-3 (3.0.0-4ubuntu2~natty1)
ugr-desktop-g3 (25~natty1)

If you look at both 'libevdocument3' and 'libevview3' you'll see the version is 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 which is apparently a conflict.

[waspbloke (david-emmo)]

Erick's solution above did not immediately work but did set me on the path that eventually identified the source of the problem: having the medibuntu repos activated. Disabled the medibuntu repos and did "apt-get install -f" fixed the broken packages and allowed further updates to install without a hitch.

[23dornot23d (keithaerospace92)]

You can just go into synaptic and click install evince ......

and that worked for me too ....

[walkerstreet (dbonner)]

This worked for me:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE ERROR:

apt-get update
apt-get -s upgrade (i.e. simulated upgrade: unfortunately this did not flag any errors)
apt-get upgrade (resulted in the following error)

Preparing to replace evince-common 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1 (using .../evince-common_3.0.2-0ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement evince-common ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/evince-common_3.0.2-0ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml', which is also in package evince 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

STEPS TO SOLVE ERROR:

(BACKUP THE XML FILE MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE ERROR):
mv /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml.backup

(REMOVE THE XML FILE MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE ERROR):
rm -rf /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml

(INSTALL evince):
apt-get install evince

(RESTORE THE XML FILE MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE ERROR):
mv /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml.backup
apt-get update (re-run this if you get an error downloading index files)
apt-get upgrade (no more errors)

[walkerstreet (dbonner)]

Sorry, I spoke too soon. Now I can't get back to Gnome Shell after rebooting. I can only use fallback mode :(

[walkerstreet (dbonner)]

OK ... I needed to:

Go To “System Settings” - “System Info” - “Graphics”: Turn “Forced Fallback Mode” to “OFF”

REBOOT → LOG IN TO ‘GNOME’ (Nb: The “Gnome-shell desktop” option no longer exists)

Now I'm back in Gnome Shell graphical mode :)

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

On a side note, update manager suggested removing ugr-desktop-g3 and reinstalling ubuntu-desktop as a solution in my case. apt-get and aptitude tried to fix it with no avail. The steps above work.

Issues like this sometimes happen with the GNOME 3 team's packages, as they might update package versions at different times. If they don't update ones that depend on each other at the same time, they might have clashes. I hope that they will work this out.

[Lealcy B. Junior (lealcy)]

Right now, I got this error:

root@lealcy:/home/lealcy# apt-get dist-upgrade
Lendo listas de pacotes... Pronto
Construindo árvore de dependências
Lendo informação de estado... Pronto
Calculando atualização... Falhou
Os pacotes a seguir têm dependências desencontradas:
 evince-common : Quebra: evince (< 3.0.0-0ubuntu1) mas 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1 está para ser instalado
E: Erro, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve gerou falhas, isto pode ser causado por pacotes mantidos (hold).
root@lealcy:/home/lealcy#

Trying to remove evince ask me to remove ubuntu-desktop (!!!).

[Lealcy B. Junior (lealcy)]

The option --ignore-hold didn't work.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

For me, i just ran
sudo apt-get install evince
And the dependency issues were resolved automatically, no need for removing stuff or backing up files.

[Lealcy B. Junior (lealcy)]

The JC Hulce #13 solution solved the issue.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

I have added this to the known issues page on our wiki. This issue does not occur in new installs in my testing, and I can't see a way to fix it. Marking as wontfix.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UGR/KnownIssues

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

This issue is messing with ebuild's image building. Using my workaround from above.