package libuim6 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: conflicting packages - not installing libuim6

[Patrick Horn]

Binary package hint: uim

I got an error message when running a normal apt-get upgrade (I've been using Jaunty for 2 months already). It's possible that I have some old oudated package still on my system from before an upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty.

patrick@rand:~$ apt-cache policy libuim6 libuim-data
libuim6:
  Installed: 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
     1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic-updates/universe Packages
 *** 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libuim-data:
  Installed: 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
     1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic-updates/universe Packages
 *** 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

An error occurred
The following details are provided
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libuim-data_1%3a1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/uim.mo', which is also in package uim-qt3 1
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libuim6_1%3a1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb: conflicting packages - not installing libuim6

dpkg: regarding .../libuim6_1%3a1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb containing libuim6:
 libuim6 conflicts with libuim-data (<< 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1)
  libuim-data (version 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1) is present and installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libuim6_1%3a1.5.6-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 conflicting packages - not installing libuim6

Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libuim-dev

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Dec 4 14:48:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: conflicting packages - not installing libuim6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libuim6 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: uim
Title: package libuim6 1:1.5.6-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: conflicting packages - not installing libuim6
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Patrick Horn (phrh)]

Worked okay after clicking the "Install" button again and clicked okay to the "Broken package" warning. Must be something related to the ordering in which it upgraded the package.