Comment 2 for bug 989818

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era (era) wrote :

Quoting VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz:
> Preparing to replace dictionaries-common 1.11.5ubuntu1 (using .../dictionaries-common_1.12.1ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
> Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/dict/words to /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common by dictionaries-common'
> dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common' with
> different file `/usr/share/dict/words', not allowed
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dictionaries-common_1.12.1ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #322448, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.