[Debburn-devel] wodim package broken?

[Lin Richardson]

If this is not the correct place to address wodim package errors, I'm
sorry... will you please forward it on for me or point me in the right
direction.

I cannot get the wodim package to install via apt-get... very strange.  I
have tried 3 different mirrors including kernel.org and easynews.com.  Also
tried testing and unstable, both give the same error.  The package name is
screwy looking to me, but I don't guess that is the problem.

CD recording is, of course, my goal - k3b and xcdroast both require wodim.
I've tried loads of stuff including renaming the package and trying to use
dpkg -i to get the job done.  No dice.
I also tried changing permissions on and even removing /usr/bin/readcd, but
if that's the issue, it isn't so easliy fixed.
I'm not familiar with package collision under Debian, in fact I never have
problems with apt-get / .deb files, so I don't know what to do at this
point.

Any other suggestions?

Regards,
Lin Richardson


the error I receive is as follows:

~$ sudo apt-get install wodim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wodim
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/412kB of archives.
After unpacking 897kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 145135 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wodim (from .../wodim_5%3a1.0~pre5-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wodim_5%3a1.0~pre5-1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/readcd', which is also in package cdrecord
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/wodim_5%3a1.0~pre5-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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