Bug#537994: libc6-i386: uninstallable with fakeroot installed on existing system
Package: libc6-i386
Version: 2.9-21
Severity: serious
Justification: Uninstallable
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i guess this is more of that dir-vs-symlink-during-transition problem?
rangda[/home/sean] sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 :)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
prelink libiso9660-5 libview2 libcdio7 libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a libadns1
libsexymm2 libparted1.8-10
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc6-i386
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3750kB of archives.
After this operation, 9482kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 329039 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libc6-i386 (from .../libc6-i386_2.9-21_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.9-21_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib32', which is also in package fakeroot
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.9-21_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
rangda[/home/sean] [100] :(
rangda[/home/sean] ls -ld /usr/lib* [100] :(
drwxr-xr-x 291 root root 192512 2009-07-22 12:02 /usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2007-09-04 01:18 /usr/lib32 -> /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2007-09-04 01:18 /usr/lib64 -> lib
this system until recently had ia32-libs installed (i removed them so i
could get the latest libc6{,-dbg}, and i've never installed ia32-libs-tools,
in case it's significant.
sean
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libc6-i386 depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
libc6-i386 recommends no packages.
libc6-i386 suggests no packages.
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