Package: tomcat6 Version: 6.0.18-3 Severity: important The init script has a "provides: tomcat", just like the tomcat5.5 package. Hence the packages cannot be installed together:
~$ sudo aptitude install tomcat5.5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following partially installed packages will be configured: tomcat5.5 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Setting up tomcat5.5 (5.5.26-5) ... insserv: script tomcat5.5: service tomcat already provided! insserv: exiting now! dpkg: error processing tomcat5.5 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tomcat5.5 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up tomcat5.5 (5.5.26-5) ... insserv: script tomcat5.5: service tomcat already provided! insserv: exiting now! dpkg: error processing tomcat5.5 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tomcat5.5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done tomcat6 should either provide the "tomcat6" service or conflict with tomcat5.5. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.4-melech (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tomcat6 depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii jsvc 1.0.2~svn20061127-9 wrapper to launch Java application ii tomcat6-common 6.0.20-1 Servlet and JSP engine -- common f tomcat6 recommends no packages. Versions of packages tomcat6 suggests: pn tomcat6-admin <none> (no description available) pn tomcat6-docs <none> (no description available) pn tomcat6-examples <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org