Arping & iputils-arping conflict each other; that's it. Note that latest arping's update was in 2014/10 and should have been removed from the archive, as per the Debian solution found to resolve such issue:
an old question/answer some years ago (by the arping dev): In the past there were some attempts to include arping into the Fedora Package Collection. At the moment there is an issue with the name. iputils contains a tool that is called arping and this ends with a name conflict. The suggestion was to rename your arping to arping-ng for the package name. Have you ever thought about renaming your tool or are there any objections about renaming it from your side? From my point of view it would be the best way to make the name change upstream to avoid confusion the users. • Reply•Share › Avatar Thomas Habets Mod Fabian Affolter • 6 years ago Debian solved this by creating a new package called iputils-arping that contains that arping and have this arping be in the package "arping". I will not rename Arping since this is just a minor issue on Linux. I have no problem with it being named something else in Fedora, except several other OSs have *this* program with the name "arping", so it could cause more confusion than already exists. http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to iputils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833546 Title: iputils-arping conflicts with package arping because of same name Status in arping package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in iputils package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I need to scan for an ip address based on MAC address and wanted to use the utility arping. Unfortunatly there are TWO different versions of the program with the exact same name. arping has dependancies with network-manager network- manager-gnome and ubuntu-desktop making the package arping impossible to install as iputils-arping is default. And iputils-arping doesn't have the option to use a MAC address to arp to receive the IP address. This discussion (from 2005) sums it up in the end as well. (why does this issue still exist?) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/how-to-find-ip-address-of-a-machine-if-i-know-their-mac-address-353239/ What procedure needs to be followed in order to get one of the programmers to rename their program, or to repackage the ubuntu package arping so that it creates /usr/bin/arpingmac or something similar instead of the naming conflict? kat@tabbykat:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 arping: Geïnstalleerd: (geen) Kandidaat: 2.09-2 Versietabel: 2.09-2 0 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages kat@tabbykat:~$ apt-cache policy iputils-arping iputils-arping: Geïnstalleerd: 3:20100418-3ubuntu1 Kandidaat: 3:20100418-3ubuntu1 Versietabel: *** 3:20100418-3ubuntu1 0 500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status What I expected to happen: arping -i eth1 00:E0:29:XX:YY:ZZ returns 60 bytes from 192.168.0.AAA (00:e0:29:XX:YY:ZZ): icmp_seq=0 time=47.922 usec What I really get kat@tabbykat:~$ arping -I eth0 00:21:00:xx:xx:xx arping: unknown host 00:21:00:xx:xx:xx ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: arping (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Aug 25 08:36:38 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=nl_NL:en LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: arping UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arping/+bug/833546/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
