Yes, apt-get and aptitude do not handle conflict resolutions very well. Can you try to see if synaptics or adept are capable of resolving the conflict? At least installing graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat over libmagick9-dev should be handled more gracefully.
-- package libmagick9-dev 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ImageMagick.pc', which is also in package graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246489 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