opera breaks dapper->eft upgrade

[anthony baxter]

Binary package hint: x11-common

Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu45 (using .../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22ubuntu10_i386.deb) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
rmdir: /usr/X11R6/bin: Directory not empty
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22ubuntu10_i386.deb (--unpack):

... looking in that directory, there was a link from opera to ../../bin/opera

I couldn't find either an x11-common or opera package in launchpad to log this against.

[anthony baxter (anthony)]

Oooo. Much, much badness. After apt-get stopped on this symlink, I now have a completely hosed system. It's telling me to run apt-get -f install. This bitches that /usr/X11R6/bin is also owned by package "opera". But I can't remove "opera", because it's telling me to run apt-get -f install when I do that.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thank you for your bug report. can you run "sudo apt-get -f install" and please attach the output if it doesnt fix it. Can you also attach /var/log/dist-upgrade file using the "attach files" in the upper left side of this screen.

[Gerv (gerv)]

I saw this problem also when upgrading to Edgy. I have an archive of /var/log/dist-upgrade - please find it attached. Place it in a clean directory before untarring it.

I managed to get my install to continue by doing "dpkg -r opera", but no instruction told me to do this, and an ordinary user faced with this situation would end up with a hosed half-upgraded system. :-|

Unfortunately, I failed to note which exact Opera package version I had installed. Perhaps my /var/log/dist-upgrade will have this information.

[anthony baxter (anthony)]

I ended up fixing it with 'dpkg -r opera', and don't have the output any more.

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