The acroread 9.1.0 upgrade/installation only went through after this:
sudo apt-get remove acroread
sudo apt-get install acroread
Removing just acroread-debian-files failed with these messages:
$ sudo apt-get remove acroread-debian-files
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libstdc++5 libxpp3-java libbackport-util-concurrent-java libxom-java
[SNIPPED EXTRANEOUS LINES]
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
acroread
Suggested packages:
libldap2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
acroread-debian-files acroread-dictionary-de acroread-l10n-de
The following packages will be upgraded:
acroread
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/63.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 71.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 205202 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing acroread-dictionary-de ...
(Reading database ... 205186 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 (using
.../acroread_9.1.0-7intrepid1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement acroread ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7intrepid1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in
package acroread-debian-files
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7intrepid1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to
overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package
acroread-debian-files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360259
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