fixed it. had a few old repositories from an older release in my apt/sources.list
One day Ubuntu will be able to detect and automatically repair bad entries in the sources.list.d files. Unfortunatly that's not yet today. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to vim in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1383964 Title: package vim-runtime (not installed) [modified: usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/help.txt usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/tags] failed to install/upgrade: subproces nieuw pre-installation script gaf een foutwaarde 2 terug Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: see attachment for the full log I ran this command in a terminal: sudo apt-get install vim-gui-common vim-common vim-scripts vim-youcompleteme apparently it didn't want to overwrite the documentation dpkg-divert: error: hernoemen omvat overschrijven van '/usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/help.txt.vim-tiny' met verschillend bestand '/usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/help.txt', niet toegelaten ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: vim-runtime (not installed) [modified: usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/help.txt usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/tags] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Oct 22 04:07:41 2014 DuplicateSignature: package:vim-runtime:(not installed) [modified: usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/help.txt usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/tags]:subproces nieuw pre-installation script gaf een foutwaarde 2 terug ErrorMessage: subproces nieuw pre-installation script gaf een foutwaarde 2 terug InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-13 (130 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: vim Title: package vim-runtime (not installed) [modified: usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/help.txt usr/share/vim/vim74/doc/tags] failed to install/upgrade: subproces nieuw pre-installation script gaf een foutwaarde 2 terug UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/1383964/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp