It appears that I have some broken packages related to Pidgin on my Mint 9
system. I've tried googling many different parts of the error
unsuccessfully. Anybody wanna take a crack at it? Here's what's happening
from the command line:
<command line>
enigma1 scott # aptitude install pidgin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
pidgin pidgin-data{a} pidgin-libnotify{a}
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.8kB/9,239kB of archives. After unpacking 30.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main pidgin-libnotify
0.14-1ubuntu14 [20.8kB]
Fetched 20.8kB in 0s (31.1kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package pidgin-data.
(Reading database ... 328921 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pidgin-data (from
.../pidgin-data_1%3a2.7.8-1~getdeb1~lucid_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-data_1%3a2.7.8-1~getdeb1~lucid_all.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/facebook.png',
which is also in package pidgin-facebookchat 0:1.64-1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package pidgin.
Unpacking pidgin (from .../pidgin_1%3a2.7.8-1~getdeb1~lucid_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pidgin-libnotify.
Unpacking pidgin-libnotify (from
.../pidgin-libnotify_0.14-1ubuntu14_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-data_1%3a2.7.8-1~getdeb1~lucid_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin:
pidgin depends on pidgin-data (>= 1:2.7.8); however:
Package pidgin-data is not installed.
pidgin depends on pidgin-data (<< 1:2.7.8-z); however:
Package pidgin-data is not installed.
dpkg: error processing pidgin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin-libnotify:
pidgin-libnotify depends on pidgin (<< 1:3.0); however:
Package pidgin is not configured yet.
pidgin-libnotify depends on pidgin (>= 1:2.6); however:
Package pidgin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pidgin-libnotify (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pidgin
pidgin-libnotify
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Current status: 1 broken [+1].
enigma1 scott #
</command line>
As always - any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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