going in circles with wine-hq

Keith keithw at caramail.com
Wed Feb 26 18:21:19 UTC 2025


On 2/26/2025 12:08 PM, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Wednesday, 26 February 2025  at 9:58, Keith via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Re: going in circles with wine-hq (at least in part)
> 
>> On 2/25/2025 1:46 PM, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>>> doing my normal update/upgrade
> 
> [snipped]
> 
>>> Preparing to unpack .../wine-devel-amd64_10.2~oracular-2_amd64.deb ...
>>> Unpacking wine-devel-amd64 (10.2~oracular-2) over (10.2~oracular-1) ...
>>> dpkg: error processing archive
> 
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/wine-devel-amd64_10.2~oracular-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>>>    trying to overwrite '/opt/wine-devel/bin/wine', which is also in package
>>> wine-devel-i386:i386 10.2~oracular-2
> 
>> This is a filename collision. Two packages are trying to install files
>> with the same name to the same directory "/opt/wine-devel-bin/wine".
>> That's a basic no-no in packaging. Apt won't copy over the wine file
>> installed by the i386 package with the one from amd64.  Normally the
>> amd64 version would name its wine binary, "wine64" to avoid this exact
>> problem.
> 
>> There needs to be a bug filed if there hasn't been already and the
>> packages rebuilt which the correct filenames.
> 
>> To solve this on your end, I would downgrade the packages back to the
>> version that previously was working which I presume is 10.2~oracular~1.
> 
> I assume someone caught the error, because at todays upgrade 10.2~oracular~1
> became 10.2~oracular~4 (no idea where 3 went :->) and a --fix-broken again has
> everything back and working
> 
> 
> 
Good that they got it fixed quickly.

-- 
Keith





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