Ubuntu
arping package

Installing arping removes network-manager and network-manager-gnome

Bug #243475 reported by Andy Buchanan on 2008-06-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #119597: Conflict with network manager, why?. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	arping (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	network-manager (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #487794

Bug Description

Binary package hint: arping

Ubuntu 8.04

arping conflicts with iputils-arping, which is required by network-manager. I installed arping only to discover I could not get to the internet because network-manager-gnome had stopped running. I removed arping and tried to reinstall network-manager-gnome, but I couldn't download the archive because... I wasn't connected to the internet. I don't know why the archive wasn't in the cache, but it wasn't.

I had to use ifconfig manually to fix the problem. This is a Bad Thing for beginners.

Surely arping and iputils-arping should be able to co-exist through the /etc/alternatives/ system? I don't mind if I have to refer to them as different things on the command line, but I don't see why having arping installed should mean I can't use network-manager.