[Bug 359518] Re: acroread failed to update in 8.10

[Arve]

This worked for me.  Thanks a lot !

2009/4/12 tuneable <mjzeeman at gmail.com>

> Same issue here (9.04). Acroread upgrade failed, and a "partial dist-
> upgrade" failed over and over. I solved it by a "sudo apt-get remove
> acroread acroread-debian-files;sudo apt-get install acroread".
>
> Not sure if it directly relates, but somewhere between the attempted
> partial dist-upgrade and the replacement of acroread, "libgl1-mesa-glx"
> and/or "libgl1-mesa-dri" were replaced by "libgl1-mesa-swx11". This was
> noticable in the visual effects; for example, window borders became
> black instead of transparent. I reinstalled  "libgl1-mesa-glx" and
> "libgl1-mesa-dri" using synaptic which seem to have restored the visual
> effects.
>
> --
> acroread failed to update in 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359518
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>
> Status in “acroread” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: acroread
>
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7hardy1_i386.deb: trying to
> overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package
> acroread-debian-files
>
> acroread was being updated by Update Manager, but came up with the above
> message. So software wasn't updated.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz',
> which is also in package acroread-debian-files
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2
> SourcePackage: acroread
> Title: package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in
> package acroread-debian-files
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
>


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Vennligst Hilsen,
Best Regards,
Arve Bjerknes.

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