package desktop-base (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/share/kde4/config/kdeglobals », qui appartient aussi au paquet plasma-active-default-settings 3.0-0ubuntu1

[Romain DEJEAN]

At the end of the uninstall kde and its dependencies, an error is returned.

dpkg: error processing / var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_7.0.3ubuntu1_all.deb (- unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/ usr/share/kde4/config/kdeglobals ", which is also in package plasma-active-default-settings 3.0-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken Relay (pipe))

Errors were encountered while processing:
  / var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_7.0.3ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (1).

P.S : this is an approximative translation of what is written in french.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: desktop-base (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
AptOrdering:
 desktop-base: Install
 desktop-base: Configure
 gnome: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 13 16:24:41 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:desktop-base:(not installed):tentative de remplacement de « /usr/share/kde4/config/kdeglobals », qui appartient aussi au paquet plasma-active-default-settings 3.0-0ubuntu1
ErrorMessage: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/share/kde4/config/kdeglobals », qui appartient aussi au paquet plasma-active-default-settings 3.0-0ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-09 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: desktop-base
Title: package desktop-base (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: tentative de remplacement de « /usr/share/kde4/config/kdeglobals », qui appartient aussi au paquet plasma-active-default-settings 3.0-0ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aurélien COUDERC (coucouf)]

This is fixed in Debian Stretch’s versions of desktop-base 9.0.x.
We stop shipping this file, so it won’t bother plasma-active-default-settings anymore.

$ debdiff desktop-base_8.0.2_all.deb desktop-base_9.0.2_all.deb
[…]
Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
[…]
-rw-r--r-- root/root /usr/share/kde4/config/kdeglobals

Cheers,
--Aurélien

[Aurélien COUDERC (coucouf)]

Fixed now that 9.0.6 is in cosmic.

Cheers,
--
Aurélien