Public bug reported:
Numix is a popular theme. It's nice to see it available in Ubuntu
proper, but since it is popular many people will have it installed from
upstream's PPA. This leads to upgrade/install failures.
$ sudo apt-get install shimmer-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
shimmer-themes
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/306 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,878 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package shimmer-themes.
(Reading database ... 420170 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking shimmer-themes (from .../shimmer-themes_1.6.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/shimmer-themes_1.6.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite
'/usr/share/themes/Numix/gtk-3.0/assets/grid-selection-checked.svg', which is
also in package numix-gtk-theme 1.9-0~151+201308152202~raring1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: error:
subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/shimmer-themes_1.6.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
** Affects: shimmer-themes (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Please install Numix to a different directory or replace/conflicts the
numix-gtk-theme PPA package
+ Install/upgrade failure when numix-gtk-theme PPA package present
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Title:
Install/upgrade failure when numix-gtk-theme PPA package present
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