[L2Ork-dev] installing pd-l2ork

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Hi Gilberto and welcome to the pd-l2ork dev list! Unfortunately, it 
seems you've discovered another conflicting part that I completely 
forgot about. I will try to investigate how to handle this gracefully. 
If anyone has an idea if it is safe to remove Gem.pc from pd-l2ork 
package, please let me know. I presume doing so may preclude someone 
from building an external library that depends on Gem in case they don't 
have extended installed. Thoughts?

In the meantime, what you may want to try to do is to force install 
(since both pd-extended and pd-l2ork Gem.pc files should be identical) 
as per:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/56761/force-apt-get-to-overwrite-file-installed-by-another-package

Please note I've never tried this before, so it may or may not work. If 
you do try this, please report results here (try Gem on both extended 
and pd-l2ork and if both work ok, you should be then ok for the time being).

HTH

Best,

Ico

On 09/14/2014 08:20 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install pd-l2ork side by side with pd-extended on my 
> Linux Mint. I read that there shouldn't be any conflicts (other people 
> manage to do so), but the .deb installer outputs:
>
> (Reading database ... 303967 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../pd-l2ork-x86_64-20140913.deb ...
> Unpacking pd-l2ork (20140913) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive 
> /home/gilberto/Desktop/pd-l2ork-x86_64-20140913.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/pkgconfig/Gem.pc', which is also in 
> package pd-extended 0.43.4-1~trusty1
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /home/gilberto/Desktop/pd-l2ork-x86_64-20140913.deb
>
> Does anybody have any idea how can I solve this problem without 
> uninstalling pd-extended?
>
> Thanks a lot. Regards,
> Gilberto Agostinho
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