adept manager fails when installing Bison++

[jjanderson5]

I'm trying to install Bison++ using Adept Manager. I requested the
install and when I applied changes, the download succeeded, but
when the install ran, it failed after 20% of the install and gave a
message that maybe the down load was bad.

I ran 'apt-get clean' to clean out the cache and tried again. Again,
the download succeeded, and the install failed after 20%.

I'm not sure what my next step should be.

BTW, Bison installed fine and I have not had problems with the
adept manager to date.

Jim Anderson

NOTE: I tried installing again, but with the 'show detail' option set during the install. I was able to capture part of the logging message as follows:


/var/cache/apt/archives/bison++_1.21.11-2.1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 95651 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bison++ (from .../bison++_1.21.11-2.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bison++_1.21.11-2.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/bison.info.gz', which is also in package bison-doc
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/bison++_1.21.11-2.1_i386.deb


I removed the /usr/share/info/bison.info.gz file. When I tried to
run the install again, I got the same message even though
the /usr/share/info/bison.info.gz file did not exist.

[javierrivera]

Re: adept manager fails when installing Bison++

It's not checking for the real file, but for the apt database.

It seems like Bison++ is conflicting with Bison. You can try to remove Bison and see if Bison++ installs.

Javier.

[jjanderson5]

Re: adept manager fails when installing Bison++


I uninstalled Bison before trying to install Bison++. I would
think that uninstalling Bision and then clearing the cache
would remove all remnants of Bison. I agree that somehow
the update manager thinks that part of Bison is still there.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jim