** Description changed: I'm on Ubuntu 12.04.5 with MATE PPAs ( ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa and ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/precise-mate ), I tried to migrate from GNOME 3.4 to MATE 1.8. - When I tried to install mate-applets with - sudo apt-get install mate-applets + When I tried to install mate-applets with + sudo apt-get install mate-applets I got the following error: - Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree - Reading state information... Done - The following NEW packages will be installed: - mate-applets - 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. - Need to get 0 B/353 kB of archives. - After this operation, 1 313 kB of additional disk space will be used. - (Reading database ... 1074750 files and directories currently installed.) - Unpacking mate-applets (from .../mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1_amd64.deb) ... - dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1_amd64.deb (--unpack): - trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/cpufreq-selector.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-applets 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 - dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) - Processing triggers for man-db ... - Errors were encountered while processing: - /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1_amd64.deb - E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) + Reading package lists... Done + Building dependency tree + Reading state information... Done + The following NEW packages will be installed: + mate-applets + 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. + Need to get 0 B/353 kB of archives. + After this operation, 1 313 kB of additional disk space will be used. + (Reading database ... 1074750 files and directories currently installed.) + Unpacking mate-applets (from .../mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1_amd64.deb) ... + dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1_amd64.deb (--unpack): + trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/cpufreq-selector.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-applets 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 + dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) + Processing triggers for man-db ... + Errors were encountered while processing: + /var/cache/apt/archives/mate-applets_1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1_amd64.deb + E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) - As temporary solution I'll remove gnome-applets package from my system. + As temporary solution I reinstalled gnome-applets package with `sudo + dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome- + applets_3.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb`. + Please fix this file conflict. - --- + --- ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) MarkForUpload: True NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: mate-applets 1.8.1+dfsg1-1~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-ubuntu-mate-dev-precise-mate] PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69~precise1-generic 3.13.11.10 Tags: third-party-packages precise Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64 UnreportableReason: This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again. UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout disk fuse libvirtd lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers
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