package innotop None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/innotop.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/InnoDBParser.pm', which is also in package mysql-client-5.0

[zbharucha]

Binary package hint: innotop

$ sudo apt-get install innotop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  innotop
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 61.1kB of archives.
After this operation, 266kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com intrepid/universe innotop 1.0-0ubuntu1 [61.1kB]
Fetched 61.1kB in 0s (130kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package innotop.
(Reading database ... 154239 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking innotop (from .../innotop_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/innotop_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/InnoDBParser.pm', which is also in package mysql-client-5.0
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/innotop_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/InnoDBParser.pm', which is also in package mysql-client-5.0
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: innotop None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/innotop.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: innotop
Title: package innotop None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/innotop.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/InnoDBParser.pm', which is also in package mysql-client-5.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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 242215, 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.

[T (t-mylisto)]

just use mysql-client. innotop is included in the mysql-client package