Errors were encountered while installing

Bug #1592937 reported by gcclinux
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
snapd (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The following NEW packages will be installed
  snapd
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/4,278 kB of archives.
After this operation, 22.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 371751 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../archives/snapd_2.0.8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking snapd (2.0.8) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/snapd_2.0.8_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/snap.1.gz', which is also in package snap 2013-11-29-1ubuntu2
Reinstalling /etc/ld.so.conf.d/snappy.conf that was moved away
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/snapd_2.0.8_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: snapd (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jun 15 19:52:09 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-24 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: snapd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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gcclinux (ricardo-gcclinux) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in snapd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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gcclinux (ricardo-gcclinux) wrote :

I managed to fix the issue there was another package called snap, ones i removed the package called snap I was able to successfully install the snapd package.

$ sudo apt remove snap
$ sudo apt install snapd

Regards,

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