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Re: Problems upgrading ia32-libs in sid: conflicts with ia32-libs-gtk?



Michelasso <qzerty@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everybody,
> today when I have tried to do an upgrade of my sid I got the following error:
>
>
>
> aquila:/home/user# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   arts libarts1-dev libartsc0 libartsc0-dev
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   ia32-libs
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> 4 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/9366kB of archives.
> After unpacking 73.7kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> Reading package fields... Done
> Reading package status... Done
> Retrieving bug reports... Done
> (Reading database ... 157784 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace ia32-libs 1.4 (using .../ia32-libs_1.5_amd64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement ia32-libs ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32', which is also in package ia32-libs-gtk
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.5_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> I had installed some time ago ia32-libs-gtk_7_amd64.deb from Ubuntu to
> have Acrobat Reader working without chrooting.
>
> Any suggestion? Should I remove ia32-libs-gtk and then reinstall it to
> solve this problem or is this a kind of bug of this version of
> ia32-libs?

ia32-libs-gtk would be to blame, if only it were a debian package. But
this is just an incompatibility between ubuntu and debian (and imho a
dpkg bug, but that is another story).

Don't be surprised to hit problems when you mix and mingle.

MfG
        Goswin



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