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Adrian Levi (ndrtau) wrote : should conflict with firmware-crystalhd

package firmware-crystalhd already installed, when installing firmware-linux-nonfree:

root@Gemini:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-firmware-nonfree
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 3,943 kB of archives. After unpacking 8,982 kB will be used.
Get: 1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse linux-firmware-nonfree all 1.14ubuntu1 [3,943 kB]
Fetched 3,943 kB in 2s (1,960 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package linux-firmware-nonfree.
(Reading database ... 197668 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-firmware-nonfree (1.14ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/bcm70015fw.bin', which is also in package firmware-crystalhd 0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

Completes sucessfully when firmware-crystalhd is removed first:
root@Gemini:/etc/apt/sources.list.d#apt-get purge firmware-crystalhd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  firmware-crystalhd*
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 6,474 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 197667 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firmware-crystalhd (0.0~git20120110.fdd2f19-1) ...
root@Gemini:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-firmware-nonfree
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/3,943 kB of archives. After unpacking 8,982 kB will be used.
(Reading database ... 197662 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-firmware-nonfree (1.14ubuntu1) ...
Setting up linux-firmware-nonfree (1.14ubuntu1) ...