gnome-menus conflicts with kdelibs-data in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu

[Christoph Haas]

It is no longer possible to dist-upgrade the system. It seems to hang at the
upgrade of the "gnome-menus" package. This may be a problem of
the "kdelibs-data" or the "gnome-menus" package so I just picked one
of both to file the bug report against.

 Christoph

$> apt-get install gnome-menus
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-menus
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 148 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/17.5kB of archives.
After unpacking 270kB of additional disk space will be used.

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 76582 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnome-menus (from .../gnome-menus_2.9.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-menus_2.9.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu', which is also in
package kdelibs-data
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-menus_2.9.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Steffen Schwientek (schwientek)]

I have problems in hoary to use kdelibs-data too, since it refuse to
install.Unfortunately it`s a kde-base package, so I cant't really use any
kde-programme.
Here the output of the apt-get install kdelibs-data

HTH Steffen

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Lese Datenbank ... 70055 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Entpacke kdelibs-data (aus .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-1ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 versuche »/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.calc.desktop« zu
überschreiben, welches auch in Paket openoffice.org-mimelnk ist
dpkg-deb: Unterprozess paste getötet mit Signal (Datenübergabe unterbrochen
(broken pipe))
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-1ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

gnome-menus issue fixed:

gnome-menus (2.9.2cvs041212-0ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low

  * control.in: should have been kdelibs-data not kdelibs

 -- Chris Halls <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:29:08 +0000

gnome-menus (2.9.2cvs041212-0ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low

  * control.in: gnome-menus Replaces pre-hoary kdelibs-data (file conflict)

 -- Chris Halls <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:51:16 +0000

The kdelibs-data/openoffice.org-mimelnk issue is a distinct problem and should
be filed separately.