Re: ia32-libs

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:13:10PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> i am not able to update ia32-libs on sid. i get the following error:
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5_amd64.deb 
> (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib32', which is also in package 
> libg2c0-dev
> and it fails to install.
> 
> i found something similare there:
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-bugs/2005-July/065679.html
> 
> any hints how to solve this? i cannot remove libg2c0-dev because several 
> other packages depend upon it... :(

It seems nobody filed a bug about this yet, will do shortly.

To work around this, first remove libg2c0-dev, then install or
upgrade ia32-libs, then install libg2c0-dev again.


Kurt