[Bug 443201] Re: package libweed0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libweed.so.0.0.0', which is also in package lives 0:1.0.0~pre2-1~getdeb1

[Harry Rickards]

Hi,

This is a known issue (see similar but not duplicate bug #436987).
Basically all the files in the GetDeb package are contained within the
one package, lives. When upgrading to the packages in the repository,
files are split across lives, lives-data, libweed0 and libweed-dev. dpkg
thinks that lives-data, libweed0 and libweed-dev are trying to overwrite
lives (from getdeb)'s files. The simple way to fix this is to simply
remove the GetDeb lives ('sudo apt-get remove lives') and install the
lives from the repository ('sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install
lives') which will also pull in lives-data and libweed0. If you need the
development libraries for libweed, you can also install libweed-dev
('sudo apt-get install libweed-dev'). I'm currently working on trying to
find a fix, but the only solution I can see so far is a preinst script
that removes lives if it's a getdeb vesion, or some sort of conflict
with lives getdeb version for libweed0, libweed-dev and lives-data. If I
don't find a cleaner solution, I think it would probably just be better
to advise people to remove the getdeb version before installing the
official one.

If you go from the official version to the getdeb version, bear in mind
you'll have to remove the official one first ('sudo apt-get remove
lives') and then upgrade to the getdeb version ('sudo apt-get install
lives' assuming the getdeb version is a higher version than the official
one).

Thanks
Harry Rickards

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package libweed0 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libweed.so.0.0.0', which is also in package lives 0:1.0.0~pre2-1~getdeb1
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