Downloaded via Synaptic Pkg Mgr

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Binary package hint: docbook-xsl

Ubuntu 8.04.1

docbook-xsl:
  Installed: 1.73.2.dfsg.1-2
  Candidate: 1.73.2.dfsg.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.73.2.dfsg.1-2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

After downloading via Synaptic Package Manager, while installing, it just crashed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jul 23 12:09:42 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/doc/reference.txt.gz', which is also in package docbook-xsl-doc-html
Package: docbook-xsl-doc-text None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/docbook-xsl-doc-text.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: docbook-xsl
Title: package docbook-xsl-doc-text None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/docbook-xsl-doc-text.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/doc/reference.txt.gz', which is also in package docbook-xsl-doc-html
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount)]

Please read, what dpkg tells you: docbook-xsl-doc-text fails to install, not docbook-xsl (and there is no crash). Further this problem has already been solved. This is a duplicate of #173145.