Package: libxtables12 Version: 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2 Severity: normal On trying to install libxtables12 I get the following error:
phil@xanthus:~$ sudo apt install libxtables12 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libfsplib0 liblua5.1-0 libtre5 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: libxtables12 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/75.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 134 kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 222175 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libxtables12_1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libxtables12:amd64 (1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libxtables12_1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxtables.so.12.0.0', which is also in package libxtables11:amd64 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxtables12_1.6.0+snapshot20161117-2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Removing libxtables11 and running the install again fixes the problem. Presumably libxtables12 needs an explicit conflicts: or replaces: line somewhere. cheers, Phil -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libxtables12 depends on: ii libc6 2.24-5 libxtables12 recommends no packages. libxtables12 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
