package lib32ncursesw5 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/lib32/libncursesw.so.5.7', which is also in package ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu10~wineppa3

[Stefan Ivarsson]

Happened while running Synaptic. Could be related to Wine 1.3 installation

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: lib32ncursesw5 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 15 17:44:29 2011
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/lib32/libncursesw.so.5.7', which is also in package ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu10~wineppa3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
SourcePackage: ncurses
Title: package lib32ncursesw5 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/lib32/libncursesw.so.5.7', which is also in package ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu10~wineppa3

[Ryan Wells (roamer)]

Same issue here. I saw a couple bugs with this, all on 64 bit systems. Maybe a reason?

[Ryan Wells (roamer)]

Found a "solution."

Open a terminal and run: sudo apt-get install -f

No idea why it didn't update properly, but this got it going for me. Very odd, I think.

[Andreas (evilandi666)]

sudo apt-get install lib32ncursesw5
sudo apt-get upgrade

-> Problem solved.

Don't know why this solves it, but I got this solution from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10463828 and it worked perfect for me.