slocate 3.1-1ubuntu2 doesn't install due to dependencies

Thanks for your report! Can you reproduce this error if you attempt to re-install slocate? I have not been able to see this problem.

2007/10/3, Kees Cook <email address hidden>:
> Thanks for your report! Can you reproduce this error if you attempt to
> re-install slocate? I have not been able to see this problem.
>
> ** Changed in: slocate (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete

slocate clamed for 'locate' and 'updatedb', but these files are from
'locate' package, not 'secure locate' package. I never used/installed
'locate' here on Xubuntu, I'd used it in a older Debian and I can't
understand why 'slocate' needs files from 'locate' to update itself
just with this version.

I think you can't see with reinstall procedures. Pay attention to
"remove diversion", because it failed in the first time with files
'locate' and 'updatedb'. So I "touched" two fake files (zero byte
files) just to 'slocate' doesn't stuck during the instalation process.
On the reinstall time (below) this workaround wasn't needed.

$ LANG=C sudo apt-get install --reinstall slocate
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/32.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 216998 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace slocate 3.1-1ubuntu2 (using
.../slocate_3.1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Removing `diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.notslocate by slocate'
Removing `diversion of /usr/bin/updatedb to
/usr/bin/updatedb.notslocate by slocate'
Removing `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.notslocate.1.gz by slocate'
Removing `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/locate.notslocate.1.gz by slocate'
Removing `diversion of /etc/cron.daily/find to
/etc/cron.daily/find.notslocate by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.notslocate by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/updatedb to /usr/bin/updatedb.notslocate
by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/locate.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/locate.notslocate.1.gz by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/updatedb.notslocate.1.gz by slocate'
Adding `diversion of /etc/cron.daily/find to
/etc/cron.daily/find.notslocate by slocate'
Unpacking replacement slocate ...
Setting up slocate (3.1-1ubuntu2) ...

Thanks for the reply and be free to ask me more about this if you wish.
--
Márcio Bremm -- http://vtnc.org/

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Could it be the same problem as described in bug 157661 ?

2007/12/18, awen <email address hidden>:
> Could it be the same problem as described in bug 157661 ?

I guess not. At least, error messages aren't the same and complain
about distinct files.
--
Márcio Bremm -- http://vtnc.org/

Pessoas não mudam, apenas mascaram sua real identidade.
People don't change, only mask their real identity.

My french isn't the best, so was a little hard to see. But the other bug also complains about 'diversion of /usr/bin/locate to /usr/bin/locate.notslocate by slocate' and ends with 'E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)'; and a reinstall of slocate also fixes the problem.

Am I right, that the package wasn't installed properly until you made the workaround?

2007/12/18, awen <email address hidden>:
> My french isn't the best, so was a little hard to see.

It's Portuguese, but never mind. :)

> Am I right, that the package wasn't installed properly until you made
> the workaround?

Exactly. Maybe it was released another version fixed (I remember
something about because often I do the updates by command line), but I
wouldn't wait the maintainer to fix it up if I could do that
workaround. Unfortunatelly slocate was stucking all updates that time.
--
Márcio Bremm -- http://vtnc.org/

Pessoas não mudam, apenas mascaram sua real identidade.
People don't change, only mask their real identity.

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