It may be worth noting that these packages had been previously built with 'fink build [same list of packages]' and I was merely installing those updates.
===== the failure
bash-2.05b$ fink install bash-completion gmp gmp-shlibs docbook-dtd libxslt libxslt-shlibs openjade perl580 perl580-core swig texinfo
Information about 3320 packages read in 2 seconds.
The package 'perl580' will be installed.
The package 'swig' will be installed.
The package 'swig-shlibs' will be installed.
The following 2 packages will be installed or updated:
perl580 swig
The following additional package will be installed:
swig-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-16_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: considering removing perl560 in favour of perl580 ...
dpkg: yes, will remove perl560 in favour of perl580.
(Reading database ... 119806 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl580 (from .../perl580_5.8.0-16_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-16_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/sw/share/man/man3/Test::Builder.3perl', which is also in package test-simple-pm580
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-16_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package perl580-5.8.0-16
===== the fix
bash-2.05b$ sudo apt-get remove test-simple-pm580
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
test-simple-pm580
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 217kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 119806 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing test-simple-pm580 ...
bash-2.05b$ fink install bash-completion gmp gmp-shlibs docbook-dtd libxslt libxslt-shlibs openjade perl580 perl580-core swig texinfo
Information about 3320 packages read in 3 seconds.
The package 'perl580' will be installed.
The package 'swig' will be installed.
The package 'swig-shlibs' will be installed.
The following 2 packages will be installed or updated:
perl580 swig
The following additional package will be installed:
swig-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/perl580_5.8.0-16_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: considering removing perl560 in favour of perl580 ...
dpkg: yes, will remove perl560 in favour of perl580.
(Reading database ... 119788 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl580 (from .../perl580_5.8.0-16_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up perl580 (5.8.0-16) ...
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/swig_1.3.20-1_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/languages/swig-shlibs_1.3.20-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
Selecting previously deselected package swig.
(Reading database ... 119987 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking swig (from .../swig_1.3.20-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package swig-shlibs.
Unpacking swig-shlibs (from .../swig-shlibs_1.3.20-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up swig-shlibs (1.3.20-1) ...
Setting up swig (1.3.20-1) ...
bash-2.05b$
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