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

[Mike Chaten]

I filed this bug report some time ago.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5047

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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