Installation database corruption

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:21:31AM +0100, Leo Noordhuizen wrote:
> Unpacking libtiff-tools (from .../libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/fax2ps.1.gz', which is also in
> package libtiff 3.9.4-2
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb

  sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb

That said, I'm curious why a 'libtiff' package exists.  At version
3.9.4-2, there was a 'libtiff4' package (and others), but not 'libtiff'.
Might you have built this yourself at some point?  It might be worth
removing it.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]