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) -- 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 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
