dapper upgrade errors(libmjpegtools0c2a)

Asked by Adi

Hi,

I've dist-upgraded Ubuntu from breezy to dapper and in the process encountered errors while installing libmjpegtools0c2a package. Here is the error -

#sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libmjpegtools0c2a
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libmjpegtools0c2a
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/205kB of archives.
After unpacking 541kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 97125 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmjpegtools0c2a (from .../libmjpegtools0c2a_1%3a1.8.0-0.0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmjpegtools0c2a_1%3a1.8.0-0.0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libmjpegutils-1.8.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools0
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libmjpegtools0c2a_1%3a1.8.0-0.0ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks,
Adi

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Roberto Rosario (roberto-rosario-gonzalez) said :
#1

type:
sudo dpkg --force-all --remove libmjpegtools0

then type sudo apt-get -f install again

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