package diatheke (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/diatheke', which is also in package libsword 1.7.4-1

[David Hartung]

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Preparing to unpack .../xiphos_4.0.0-3_i386.ubuntu1404.deb ...
Unpacking xiphos (4.0.0-3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xiphos:
 xiphos depends on gnome-common.
 xiphos depends on libgtkhtml-4.0-0.
 xiphos depends on libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0.
 xiphos depends on libgsf-1-common.

dpkg: error processing package xiphos (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xiphos

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: diatheke (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jan 1 20:00:11 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:diatheke:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/diatheke', which is also in package libsword 1.7.4-1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/diatheke', which is also in package libsword 1.7.4-1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-01 (365 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
SourcePackage: sword
Title: package diatheke (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/diatheke', which is also in package libsword 1.7.4-1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-18 (75 days ago)

[Unit 193 (unit193)]

Hello and thank you for taking the time to file a bug.

It appears you are installing from an external source, while we can't really support this, by the error you describe all you need to do in order to fix this is run sudo apt-get installl -f to install the additional packages that 'xiphos' depends on. For further instructions, please refer to the provider of the package you downloaded.

If this is not the case, please feel free to change the status of the bug report.

Thanks, and hope you have a wonderful day.

[Unit 193 (unit193)]

Ah, sorry. The title of the bug is a different issue, seemingly related to bug 1416067.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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