Hardy update libnspr4-0d

[Derek Broughton]

David Dartnall wrote:

> Not sure if this the right place to report but no doubt I'll be told!
> 
> All Hardy upgrade notices to date have been installed without hitch.
> 
> Update 'libnspr4-0d' returned the following error message:
> 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1+1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2_i386.deb:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libnspr4.so', which is also in package
> libnspr4
> 
> Can this just be ignored?

Maybe :-)

I can't see just why we have an libnspr4-0d and libnspr4 (I have both
installed too, even though they seem to do the same thing).  It looks as if
the -0d package has superceded the other, as I don't have anything that
depends on libnspr4, so I'd try first just uninstalling libnspr4.  If that
doesn't want to remove anything else, then you should be able to complete
the upgrade.

Otherwise you can either do:

# sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libnspr4-0d*.deb

which will allow the package to be installed despite the conflict, or wait
for somebody to fix the package to force it to either replace libnspr4
(which may never happen, if there's a good reason to allow both to exist)
or to use a different .so file.
-- 
derek