5prasad
October 23rd, 2012, 11:37 PM
hello all,
I have updated Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. During installation Question was that if you keep keep the packages which are not needed but mistakenly I kept the 12.04 packages. So now update manager is showing following error.
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%%
(Reading database ... 10%%
(Reading database ... 15%%
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(Reading database ... 45%%
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(Reading database ... 65%%
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(Reading database ... 75%%
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(Reading database ... 90%%
(Reading database ... 95%%
(Reading database ... 100%%
(Reading database ... 213466 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libdrm2:amd64 2.4.39-0ubuntu1 (using .../libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libdrm2:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libdrm2:amd64
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Error in function:
This is causing many error. Such as speaker and dropxbox not working. I am in real mess.
Please help.
Any help is appreciated.
thanks in advance.
I have updated Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. During installation Question was that if you keep keep the packages which are not needed but mistakenly I kept the 12.04 packages. So now update manager is showing following error.
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%%
(Reading database ... 10%%
(Reading database ... 15%%
(Reading database ... 20%%
(Reading database ... 25%%
(Reading database ... 30%%
(Reading database ... 35%%
(Reading database ... 40%%
(Reading database ... 45%%
(Reading database ... 50%%
(Reading database ... 55%%
(Reading database ... 60%%
(Reading database ... 65%%
(Reading database ... 70%%
(Reading database ... 75%%
(Reading database ... 80%%
(Reading database ... 85%%
(Reading database ... 90%%
(Reading database ... 95%%
(Reading database ... 100%%
(Reading database ... 213466 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libdrm2:amd64 2.4.39-0ubuntu1 (using .../libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libdrm2:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libdrm2:amd64
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Error in function:
This is causing many error. Such as speaker and dropxbox not working. I am in real mess.
Please help.
Any help is appreciated.
thanks in advance.