Subject: Bug#551048: r-cran-vr: error upgrading package - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/R/library/R.css

From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:22:11 -0500

On 15 October 2009 at 19:27, Arthur Marsh wrote:
| Package: r-cran-vr
| Version: 7.2.49-1
| Severity: normal
| 
| Hi, when I tried to upgrade I received the following error:
| 
| Preparing to replace r-cran-vr 7.2.49-1 (using .../r-cran-vr_7.2.49.really.7.3.0-1_i386.deb) ...
| Unpacking replacement r-cran-vr ...
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/r-cran-vr_7.2.49.really.7.3.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
|  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/R/library/R.css', which is also in package r-base-core 0:2.10.0~20091013-1

My bad. Will fix.

Dirk

| dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| Processing triggers for man-db ...
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  /var/cache/apt/archives/r-cran-vr_7.2.49.really.7.3.0-1_i386.deb
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
| Setting up libgstfarsight0.10-0 (0.0.16-1) ...
| Setting up libpthread-stubs0 (0.3-1) ...
| Setting up libgsm1 (1.0.13-2) ...
| Setting up git-core (1:1.6.5-1) ...
| Installing new version of config file /etc/bash_completion.d/git ...
| Setting up libburn4 (0.7.2-1) ...
| Setting up cdrskin (0.7.2-1) ...
| Setting up gcj-jre-headless (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up libpthread-stubs0-dev (0.3-1) ...
| Setting up cpp (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up gcc (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up libgcj-bc (4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up gcc-multilib (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up gcj-jre (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up g++ (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up gpc (5:2.1-4.1.2-37+nmu1) ...
| Setting up gfortran (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| Setting up gij (4:4.3.3-9+nmu1) ...
| 
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: squeeze/sid
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc6 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
| Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| 
| Versions of packages r-cran-vr depends on:
| ii  libc6                  2.9-27            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
| ii  r-base-core            2.10.0~20091013-1 GNU R core of statistical computat
| 
| r-cran-vr recommends no packages.
| 
| r-cran-vr suggests no packages.
| 
| -- debconf-show failed
| 
| 

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