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slocate package

  1. Bug #175044
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 175044

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Stephen Cradock (s-cradock) wrote :

same error here:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/slocate_3.1-1.1ubuntu1_i386.deb: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Preparing to replace slocate 3.1-1ubuntu3 (using .../slocate_3.1-1.1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...

Error. The following diversions still exist:
diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.notslocate by slocate
diversion of /usr/bin/updatedb to /usr/bin/updatedb.notslocate by slocate
diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/locate.norslocate.1.gz by slocate
diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.notslocate.1.gz by slocate

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/slocate_3.1-1.1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/slocate_3.1-1.1ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover: