Package conflict in mate-applets

[Nigel Hathaway]

The following occurs when you update (apt-get dist-upgrade)

Unpacking mate-applets (1.8.1+dfsg1-1~trusty1) over (1.8.0+dfsg1-1~ppa1~trusty1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~trusty1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/cpufreq-selector.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-applets 3.5.92-0ubuntu3
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

[GKS (gks1)]

Exactly the same thing happens to me.

[mxCoder (ricardoe)]

It happens to me too.

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lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

uname -a
Linux XXXXXX 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[jalirious (benpietras)]

Me as well, just as I was getting to really like mate.

[Lenmaer (66952d29)]

Same here on 2 ubuntu 14.04.1 servers

[Elvin Abraham Garcia (elvin1396)]

I also get this error, tried updating via the built-in software updater and tried through Synaptic. This is what Synaptic prints out for me when I try to update.

An error occurred

The following details are provided:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~trusty1_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/cpufreq-selector.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-applets 3.5.92-0ubuntu3

[Mick Collingwood (d3xp2pc)]

I have the same error:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux Server 3.13.0-36-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 3 21:30:07 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Unpacking mate-applets (1.8.1+dfsg1-1~trusty1) over (1.8.0+dfsg1-1~ppa1~trusty1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~trusty1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/cpufreq-selector.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-applets 3.5.92-0ubuntu3
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~trusty1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[mauricio marinho (mauriciocmarinho)]

It worked for me:

dpkg -P gnome-applets

sudo apt-get install -f

[GKS (gks1)]

Yes, that would work, because as I understand it gnome and mate are trying to use the same filename. But I am not the only user: some other users want gnome, and won't be happy if I remove it so that mate behaves. I suppose that most of us just have to wait for this incompatibility to work its way to the top of somebody's to do list.

[Stefan Popita (stefan-popita-deactivatedaccount)]

same problem here.

could only make it work by removing the gnome-applets. hope this bug gets noticed fast so I can put gnome-applets back!

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Fix is released for Ubuntu Utopic 14.10. Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 will be fixed in due course.

[GKS (gks1)]

Still broken in 14.04 (LTS!) and blocking other upgrades, it seems. I don't think this is "low" importance. Having a patch in Debian or 14.10 is not satisfactory: it is 14.04 that is supposed to be stable.

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

Fixed in mate-applets the MATE for Trusty PPA, /usr/share/man/man1/cpufreq-selector.1.gz is now renamed /usr/share/man/man1/mate-cpufreq-selector.1.gz

[Martin Wimpress  (flexiondotorg)]

You'll need to:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-mate-core ubuntu-mate-desktop

[GKS (gks1)]

Thank you. It also needs a

sudo apt-get install -f

first, otherwise it just goes on complaining about unmet dependencies. Mate is OK now: I haven't tried gnome yet, but there shouldn't be any problem because we haven't done anything to that.