[Bug 1531059] Re: lib64ncurses5-dev fails to install

[Karl Stenerud]

In the latest 14.04, apt install libncurses5-dev works, so this has
probably been fixed in another bugfix.


** Changed in: ncurses (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  lib64ncurses5-dev fails to install

Status in ncurses package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   lib64ncurses5-dev

  
  sudo apt-get -f install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libc6-dev-amd64:i386
  Recommended packages:
    gcc-multilib:i386
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libc6-dev-amd64:i386
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  8 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/1,429 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 9,590 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  (Reading database ... 594115 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../libc6-dev-amd64_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_i386.deb ...
  Unpacking libc6-dev-amd64 (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-amd64_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_i386.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/include/gnu', which is also in package libc6-dev-i386 2.19-0ubuntu6.6
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-amd64_2.19-0ubuntu6.6_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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