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pam package

  1. Oneiric (11.10)
  2. Bug #871083
  3. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 871083

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: package libpam-modules 1.1.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: './usr/share/man/man8/pam_shells.8.gz' is different from the same file on the system

aptitude is not the recommended interface for commandline-based upgrades; it's recommended that you use apt-get instead. And aptitude is known to not work right with multiarch packages (which is what libpam-modules:i386 is). I'm sorry, but it sounds like aptitude has made a real mess of your system.

You may be able to fix this by running 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop'. But if that doesn't solve it, I think you'll want to take this question to one of the support forums. (ubuntuforums.org, askubuntu.com, etc)