Precise libapt-pkg update problem

[Dale Amon]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:39:55PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> I'm going to try to resolve this manually, but
> I thought it might perhaps be of interest
> to someone here.
> 
> Unpacking libapt-pkg4.12:i386 (from .../libapt-pkg4.12_0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libapt-pkg4.12_0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  './usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo' is different from the same file on the system
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libapt-pkg4.12_0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6_i386.deb

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FYI: This is the manual hack to force the install:

for i in  /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo ; do mv $i $i.orig ; done

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libapt-pkg4.12_0.8.16~exp12ubuntu6_i386.deb