I filed this bug report some time ago. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5047
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu < seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > On 12/8/10 5:41 AM, klickverbot wrote: > >> Currently, this is what happens when you try to install the DMD 2 deb >> from digitalmars.com on a vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 box: >> >> sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb >> Selecting previously deselected package dmd. >> (Reading database ... 127418 files and directories currently installed.) >> Unpacking dmd (from .../Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb) ... >> dpkg: error processing ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb (--install): >> trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/shell', which is also in package byobu >> 3.5-0ubuntu1 >> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb >> >> Obviously, the problem is that the package contains the »shell« >> excecutable – is this really needed, even more so on Linux? Couldn't >> >> it simply be removed from the deb? >> >> In any case, something should really be done about this as soon as >> possible – not that one couldn't solve this problem for himself, >> providing a non-functional »1-click install« (that's how the package >> >> is described on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html) is probably >> one of the worst forms of advertising possible… >> > > This seems pretty urgent. Walter? > > Andrei >
