dpkg error on apt-get upgrade

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 09:00:14AM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> I ran an apt-get upgrade and for the first time ever (testament to the
> perfection of Debian) I got an error:
> 
> Preparing to replace lives-data 1:1.0.0-0.0 (using
> .../lives-data_1%3a1.3.10-0.1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement lives-data ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lives-data_1%3a1.3.10-0.1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/build-lives-rfx-plugin', which is also
> in package lives 1:1.0.0-0.0
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/lives-data_1%3a1.3.10-0.1_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Tried Google, but not sure what part of that to google, mostly get no
> hits. It looks like I've got a permissions problem, it can't overwrite
> the old binaries?
> 
> First time I've ever run into this, so I'm lost. Any hints?

So a file has moved from one package to another and was not flagged
properly (at least that's the normal cause).

Try removing 'lives' then install lives-data and lives again.

Make sure to file a bug report on the package too about the missing
'Replaces' flag.  With the flag dpkg will know how to handle the moving
of a file from one package to another by doing the ordering right.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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