libgtk-3-bin failed to install/upgrade: diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin clashes with same diversion by libgtk3.0-bin

[dino99]

oneiric i386

cant upgrade to gnome-icon-theme 3.0.0-1ubuntu1 due to broken dependencies of libgtk-3-bin

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libgtk-3-bin (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-2.8-generic-pae 2.6.39-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-2-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 21 15:02:25 2011
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus nouveau script pre-installation a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 2
SourcePackage: gtk+3.0
Title: package libgtk-3-bin (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus nouveau script pre-installation a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

have downgraded gnome-icon-theme to 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1_all.deb using dpkg -i to unlock this problem as it using libgtk2

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Error from the logs
 Unpacking libgtk-3-bin (from .../libgtk-3-bin_3.0.9-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
 dpkg-divert: error: `diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin' clashes with `diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk3.0-bin'
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.0.9-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack):
  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

What's the output of the command:
$ apt-cache policy libgtk3.0-bin

Thanks in advance.

[Joel Stanley (shenki)]

$ apt-cache policy libgtk3.0-bin
libgtk3.0-bin:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
     3.0.0-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[dino99 (9d9)]

output with the actual package (see #2 above)

oem@oem-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy libgtk3.0-bin
libgtk3.0-bin:
  Installé : (aucun)
  Candidat : (aucun)
  Table de version :

so version table is empty

[dino99 (9d9)]

but as the related package is: libgtk-3-bin

oem@oem-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy libgtk-3-bin
libgtk-3-bin:
  Installé : (aucun)
  Candidat : 3.0.9-0ubuntu2
  Table de version :
     3.0.9-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages

so is it a package typo libgt3.0-bin/libgtk-3-bin ?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

It was not a typo, I'm wondering if it's something left behind by libgtk3.0-bin from a PPA or a superseded version from Natty (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/3.0.0-0ubuntu1) I can't reproduce the problem, there's a conflict between both packages and I'm unable to reinstall libgtk3.0-bin.

Did you install libgtk3.0-bin at some point ?

[dino99 (9d9)]

its a fresh natty i386 install & updated, then changed the sources.list to Oneiric

so i doubt ligtk3.0-bin have been instaaled as the only ppa are: virtualbox & wine

the libgtk* actually installed are: libgtk-vnc-2.0-0, libgtk-3-0, libgtk-3-common & libgtk-sharp-beans-cil

[dino99 (9d9)]

forgot to say that libgtk3.0-bin is no more present into synaptic

[dino99 (9d9)]

searching about "libgtk3.0-bin" into nautilus system files: found nothing

[dino99 (9d9)]

some tweak:

if i remove/purge libgtk2.0-bin, then the system propose to upgrade gnome-icon-theme & install libgtk-3.0-bin, but:

it want to remove mostly all the gnome dependencies and install instead a bunch of kde packages, very strange.

[Nick Semenkovich (semenko)]

Not sure if I installed libgtk3.0-bin, but I did have the Virtualbox PPA added at some point.

[Nick Semenkovich (semenko)]

semenko@halogenated-wombat:~$ apt-cache policy libgtk3.0-bin
libgtk3.0-bin:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
     3.0.0-0ubuntu1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Nick Semenkovich (semenko)]

The quick & obvious workaround is:

dpkg-divert --remove /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches
dpkg-divert --remove /usr/share/man/man8/update-icon-caches.8.gz

[dino99 (9d9)]

Thanks Semenko

i've applied those commands with "sudo"
then installed libgtk-3-bin and finally be abled to upgrade gnome-icon-theme

So this report can maybe be closed

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue got fixed in debian and synced in that upload:

gtk+3.0 (3.0.11-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
  * Resynchronize on Debian, see the 3.0.0-1ubuntu1 changelog entry which
    has a summary of the remaining Ubuntu changes
  * 043_notebook_scroll.patch:
    - dropped, that's a Debian change and we want the upstream behaviour rather
      or at least a rational to ship a diff over upstream for it
  * debian/control.in: clean some unrequired diffs over Debian