New subject: [trinity-users] Installation problem on Ubuntu oneiric (ksmserver-trinity fails to install)

14 Nov 2011


      Hi,
when I try to install Trinity 3.5.13 on my Ubuntu oneiric machine the package "ksmserver-trinity" fails to install.  Apt-get shows the following error:
...
dpkg-divert: error: `diversion of /usr/bin/plasma to /usr/bin/plasma.kde4 by ksmserver-trinity' clashes with `local diversion of /usr/bin/plasma to /usr/bin/plasma.kde4'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ksmserver-trinity_4%3a3.5.13-0ubuntu9+r1261450+pr23~oneiric_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
(full output of "apt-get -f install" in appendix)
I suppose this is a bug, but is there a way to work around it?
Regards,
Stefan
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$ apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ksmserver-trinity
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ksmserver-trinity
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/279 kB of archives.
After this operation, 696 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
(Reading database ... 774233 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ksmserver-trinity (from .../ksmserver-trinity_4%3a3.5.13-0ubuntu9+r1261450+pr23~oneiric_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: error: `diversion of /usr/bin/plasma to /usr/bin/plasma.kde4 by ksmserver-trinity' clashes with `local diversion of /usr/bin/plasma to /usr/bin/plasma.kde4'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ksmserver-trinity_4%3a3.5.13-0ubuntu9+r1261450+pr23~oneiric_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ksmserver-trinity_4%3a3.5.13-0ubuntu9+r1261450+pr23~oneiric_amd64.deb