Re: DMD2 .deb fails to install on Ubuntu 10.10 – just remove »shell«?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/8/10 5:41 AM, klickverbot wrote:
> Currently, this is what happens when you try to install the DMD 2 deb
> from digitalmars.com on a vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 box:
>
> sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package dmd.
> (Reading database ... 127418 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking dmd (from .../Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/shell', which is also in package byobu
> 3.5-0ubuntu1
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> ~/Downloads/dmd_2.050-0_i386.deb
>
> Obviously, the problem is that the package contains the »shell«
> excecutable – is this really needed, even more so on Linux? Couldn't
> it simply be removed from the deb?
>
> In any case, something should really be done about this as soon as
> possible – not that one couldn't solve this problem for himself,
> providing a non-functional »1-click install« (that's how the package
> is described on http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html) is probably
> one of the worst forms of advertising possible…

This seems pretty urgent. Walter?

Andrei