package libxapian-1.3-5 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/xapian-core/stopwords/dutch.list', which is also in package libxapian-1.3-4 1.3.3-0ubuntu2

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dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libxapian-1.3-5_1.3.4-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/xapian-core/stopwords/dutch.list', which is also in package libxapian-1.3-4 1.3.3-0ubuntu2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libxapian-1.3-5_1.3.4-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libxapian-1.3-5 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 20 20:33:47 2016
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/xapian-core/stopwords/dutch.list', which is also in package libxapian-1.3-4 1.3.3-0ubuntu2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-15 (66 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151114)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.1.10
SourcePackage: xapian1.3-core
Title: package libxapian-1.3-5 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/xapian-core/stopwords/dutch.list', which is also in package libxapian-1.3-4 1.3.3-0ubuntu2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dino99 (9d9)]

Proposed workaround until fixed:

  sudo dpkg -P libxapian-1.3-4
  sudo apt-get upgrade

when the old libxapian-1.3-4 package is purged, the upgrade is again possible .

[cipriani (cipriani)]

the method of dino99 (9d9) work. Now i can upgrade normally.after an apt-get -f install

[Anton Turnwald (aturnwald)]

cheers, it helpt me, too. Because for 30 minutes my auto update collapsed,too with the same error msg. But now, this method works pretty good. Have a nice day. Toni