[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#501012: Bug#501012: libdb4.6-dev: update manage fails to update the package

Sat Oct 4 11:19:56 UTC 2008

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:13:13PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> /me is willing to set the severity of this bug to important
> 
> On Friday 03 October 2008, Clint Adams wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:24:20AM +0100, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> > > update manager fails with the error message:
> > >
> > > An error occurred
> > > The following details are provided:
> > >
> > > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-11_i386.deb: trying to
> > > overwrite `/usr/lib/libdb-4.6.a', which is also in package libdb-dev
> >
> > Please let us know if repeating the upgrade attempt fails or succeeds
> > on the second time.
> 
> Following apt's advice to try apt-get -f install does work; any second, third, 
> or more dist-/upgrade attempts won't help at all.

I tried synaptic (which is what I normally use), and it worked too. I
include /var/log/apt/term.log below.

I should add that I've been following lenny. If this is a bug that
affects only people following lenny, it is much less of a problem than
if it affects upgrades from etch.

Log started: 2008-10-01  10:27:43
(Reading database ... 180969 files and directories currently installed.)

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Log ended: 2008-10-01  10:28:10

Log started: 2008-10-02  15:49:17
(Reading database ... 180981 files and directories currently installed.)

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