Re: libwxgtk2.4-python 2.4.2.6 install error

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov> writes:

> # apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libwxgtk2.4-python
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/2592kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] [chop]
> Reading changelogs...
> (Reading database ... 68563 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libwxgtk2.4-python 2.4.2.6 (using .../libwxgtk2.4-python_2.4.2.6.1_amd64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libwxgtk2.4-python ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libwxgtk2.4-python_2.4.2.6.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/helpviewer', which is also in package wxpython2.5.3
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libwxgtk2.4-python_2.4.2.6.1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> # echo $?
> 100
> # 

Please report this to debian using reportbug.

MfG
        Goswin