Item10743: Fail to install foswiki plugin "foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin"

• Host computer: Debian Squeeze 64 bits

• Issue: Fail to install foswiki plugin "foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin"

     $ sudo aptitude install package foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin
  
  
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin 
  0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/113 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
  (Reading database ... 31292 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin (from .../foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin_110417-215_all.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin_110417-215_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/var/lib/foswiki/lib/TWiki/Prefs.pm', which is also in package foswiki 1.1.3-2
  configured to not write apport reports
                                        dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin_110417-215_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  

• Fail to install package "foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon"

  $ sudo aptitude install foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon
  [sudo] password for chief: 
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon 
  0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 93.5 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    foswiki: Conflicts: foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon but 110417-215 is to be installed.
  The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
  
       Keep the following packages at their current version:
  1)     foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon [Not Installed]      
  
  
  
  Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 
  
  

RogerioMachado - 14 May 2011

I would hope they fail to install - these 2 are in the foswiki 1.1.3 package and are essitially only in the repository for testing purposes

why do you want to install them? (i'm asking in case i'm missing the point completely)

-- SvenDowideit - 15 May 2011

• Issue 1: Fail to install foswiki plugin "foswiki-twikicompatibilityplugin"

I would like to install foswiki plugin because I dont haved migrated some webs from legacy Twiki. See below the problem

• Issue 2: Fail to install package "foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon"

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My Problem Solved!. I dont need this package foswiki-comparerevisionsaddon(not related to foswiki current package). Just installed "libhtml-tree-perl" package. I think there's a missing dependency. Foswiki depends "libhtml-tree-perl". The current package dont

$ apt-rdepends foswiki | grep libhtml-tree-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done

Sorry for my bad English

-- RogerioMachado - 15 May 2011

oh, yup, added it for 1.1.4's pkg.

see also: Item10938

-- SvenDowideit - 22 Feb 2012

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