What I had to do to resolve this was open Synaptic and first purge both 'evince' and 'evince-common' which removes the 'ugr-desktop-g3' meta- package:
Commit Log for Sat May 21 09:19:58 2011 Completely removed the following packages: evince evince-common Removed the following packages: ugr-desktop-g3 After that I reinstalled the 'ugr-desktop-g3' meta-package which resolved the issue: Commit Log for Sat May 21 09:21:44 2011 Removed the following packages: libevdocument3 libevview3 Installed the following packages: evince (3.0.0-4ubuntu2~natty1) evince-common (3.0.0-4ubuntu2~natty1) libevince3-3 (3.0.0-4ubuntu2~natty1) ugr-desktop-g3 (25~natty1) If you look at both 'libevdocument3' and 'libevview3' you'll see the version is 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1 which is apparently a conflict. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR, which is subscribed to ugr-meta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785762 Title: evince-common update error Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages: Incomplete Bug description: I had the 'partial upgrade' bug and got round it with apt-get -f dist- upgrade. However, during the upgrade and now after a reboot I have this remaining package which fails to install. (Reading database ... 148416 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace evince-common 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1 (using .../evince-common_3.0.0-4ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement evince-common ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/evince-common_3.0.0-4ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml', which is also in package evince 3.0.0-0ubuntu1~build1 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/evince-common_3.0.0-4ubuntu1~natty1_all.deb Setting up libbrasero-media3-1 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up evolution-data-server-common (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libgweather-3-0 (3.0.0-0ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libgtkhtml-4.0-common (4.0.0-1~build1) ... Setting up libtracker-client-0.8-0 (0.8.17-1ubuntu2) ... Setting up libebackend-1.2-1 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up brasero-cdrkit (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libgtkhtml-4.0-0 (4.0.0-1~build1) ... Setting up libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0 (4.0.0-1~build1) ... Setting up liblqr-1-0 (0.4.1-1ubuntu2) ... Setting up libcamel-1.2-23 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up evolution-common (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libmagickcore3 (7:6.6.2.6-1ubuntu4) ... Setting up libebook1.2-10 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up brasero (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libedata-cal-1.2-11 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libedataserverui-3.0-0 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up dvdauthor (0.7.0-1) ... Setting up libedata-book-1.2-9 (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up libevolution (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up evolution-data-server (3.0.0-1ubuntu1~natty1) ... Setting up evolution (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/xdg/autostart/evolution-alarm-notify.desktop ... Setting up evolution-plugins (3.0.0-2ubuntu1~natty1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam Post to : ubuntugnometeam@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp