[Bug 1815727] Re: failed to install libreadline-dev

[Sebastien Bacher]

ok, closing the bug, it looks like you had a package not coming from
Ubuntu creating the issue

** Changed in: readline (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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Title:
  failed to install libreadline-dev

Status in readline package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 18.10
  was just supposed to install the package
  received this error

  sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Suggested packages:
    readline-doc
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libreadline-dev
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/133 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 728 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  (Reading database ... 210470 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../libreadline-dev_7.0-5_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking libreadline-dev:amd64 (7.0-5) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreadline-dev_7.0-5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/include/readline/chardefs.h', which is also in package readline-devel 6.2-11
  dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libreadline-dev_7.0-5_amd64.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: libreadline-dev (not installed)
  Uname: Linux 4.20.7-042007-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Feb 13 01:51:22 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-02-11 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: readline
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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