mate-desktop/debian-packages — Issue #13: mate-applets-common conflicts with gnome-applets-data
Author: benpicco
Created: 2012-01-26 21:33:32+00:00
State: open

When I update my mate install on Ubuntu 11.10 I get

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mate-applets-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
mate-applets
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/8527 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2183 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 537512 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mate-applets-common (from .../mate-applets-common_1.1.1-1_all.deb) ...
Replacing files in old package mate-applets ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets-common_1.1.1-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/invest-applet.png', which is also in package gnome-applets-data 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace mate-applets 1.1.0-1 (using .../mate-applets_1.1.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mate-applets ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.1.1-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/invest-chart', which is also in package gnome-applets 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for mate-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets-common_1.1.1-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.1.1-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)