package awstats (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cgi-bin', which is also in package php5-cgi 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.14

[Harish]

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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: awstats (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-73.116-generic 3.13.11-ckt30
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-73-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 13 01:18:42 2015
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-trusty-amd64-20140620-0
DuplicateSignature: package:awstats:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cgi-bin', which is also in package php5-cgi 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.14
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cgi-bin', which is also in package php5-cgi 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.14
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-21 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20140620-04:25
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
SourcePackage: awstats
SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'system-image-cli'
Title: package awstats (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/cgi-bin', which is also in package php5-cgi 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.14
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Since there isn't enough information in your report to differentiate between a local configuration problem and a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

For the record in an Trusty LXC I attempted to install php5-cgi and then afterwards install awstats and had no issues:

root@trusty:~# sudo apt install php5-cgi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libxml2 lsof php5-common php5-json psmisc sgml-base xml-core
Suggested packages:
  php-pear php5-user-cache sgml-base-doc debhelper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libxml2 lsof php5-cgi php5-common php5-json psmisc sgml-base xml-core
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main php5-cgi amd64 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20 [4285 kB]
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Creating config file /etc/ph...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for awstats (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]