HexChat Plugins package won't install due to error

[Tommy Trussell]

$ apt-cache policy hexchat-plugins
hexchat-plugins:
  Installed: 2.10.2-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.12.1-1~getdeb1
  Version table:
     2.12.1-1~getdeb1 500
        500 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb/apps amd64 Packages
 *** 2.10.2-1ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$

First few lines of the apport error log:

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 7 18:26:03 2016
Package: hexchat-plugins 2.12.1-1~getdeb1
SourcePackage: hexchat
ErrorMessage:
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/hexchat-plugin.pc', wh
ich is also in package hexchat 2.10.2-1ubuntu3
DpkgTerminalLog:

do you need for me to attach the error log?

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

$ apt-cache policy hexchat
hexchat:
  Installed: 2.12.1-1~getdeb1
  Candidate: 2.12.1-1~getdeb1
  Version table:
 *** 2.12.1-1~getdeb1 500
        500 http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb/apps amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.10.2-1ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
$

It just occurred to me maybe I should have uninstalled hexchat first?

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

I just uninstalled and reinstalled hexchat and it's OK. I guess this was due to having a Trusty version of Hexchat and an upgrade to Xenial.