Casper fails to install on 10.04.3

[Oliver]

Not sure whether this is casper or rather dpkg/apt. Either way, here is what happens.

I installed lupin-casper and it failed to install casper on which it depends. The failure manifests as follows:

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[2] oliver@askr:~$ apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  lupin-casper: Depends: casper (>= 0.98) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
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Now when I try to force a resolution of the problem, I get this:

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[2] oliver@askr:~$ apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  casper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  casper
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/78.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 410kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 122776 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking casper (from .../casper_1.236.3_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/casper_1.236.3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/compcache', which is also in package live-initramfs 0:1.173.1-1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/casper_1.236.3_amd64.deb
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Let me know what other information may be needed, I'll try to collect it.

// Oliver

PS:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy casper
casper:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.236.3
  Version table:
     1.236.3 0
        500 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
     1.236 0
        500 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

$ apt-cache policy lupin-casper
lupin-casper:
  Installed: 0.29.1
  Candidate: 0.29.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.29.1 0
        500 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.29 0
        500 http://is.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug is a duplicate of bug 453476. This was fixed in the maverick version of casper as follows:

  * Conflict with live-initramfs, as they overlap and people can pick one or
    the other (LP: #453476).