mscompress fails to install - prevents foo2zjs installation

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Binary package hint: foo2zjs

While updating feisty a few minutes ago I got this issue:

Selecting previously deselected package mscompress.
Unpacking mscompress (from .../mscompress_0.3-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mscompress_0.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/msexpand', which is also in package foo2zjs

Preparing to replace libbrlapi1 3.7.2-7ubuntu2 (using .../libbrlapi1_3.7.2-7ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libbrlapi1 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mscompress_0.3-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of foo2zjs:
 foo2zjs depends on mscompress; however:
  Package mscompress is not installed.
dpkg: error processing foo2zjs (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 27 23:22:23 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux hp-laptop 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 25 00:21:25 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Same issues here, but the fundamental problem seems to be mscompress failing to install. My error report had less detail, but is consistent with this report:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mscompress_0.3-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

In my case re-running the mscompress install enabled installation and configuration to complete:

sudo apt-get install mscompress
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mscompress
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/7870B of archives.
After unpacking 73.7kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 115316 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mscompress (from .../mscompress_0.3-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up mscompress (0.3-2) ...
Setting up foo2zjs (20061224-0ubuntu3) ...

[A. Campbell (allenc28)]

I have also encountered this problem. The error that appeared in an Update Manager dialog is:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mscompress_0.3-2_amd64.deb:
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/msexpand', which is also in package foo2zjs

This message also appears in the "Details" window of Update Manager. Further down in the details, this output appears:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of foo2zjs:
 foo2zjs depends on mscompress; however:
  Package mscompress is not installed.
dpkg: error processing foo2zjs (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

I had to type that last bit in because while Update Managers Details window allows you to select text, you can't copy it.

Looks like foo2zjs is both providing one or more files that mscompress also provides, and simultaniously depending on mscompress.

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Exactly the same problem here. This happened during my latest update of feisty packages.

update-manager reported: 'Error: BrokenCount > 0'
as well as this error:
 'E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mscompress_0.3-2_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/msexpand', which is also in package foo2zjs'

I've also attached a screenshot showing the dpkg error messages.

This sounds like a dependency issue with 'foo2zjs.deb' or a dpkg issue. Anyway, it resolved itself after rerunning the package manager again without complaining about failing to install mscompress.