Comment 36 for bug 135358

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martinjj (joe-deltx) wrote :

I attempted to install. I have included the additional repository and was able to update apt-get update . Attempting to install I received the following:
martinjj@Dellv:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-player
[sudo] password for martinjj:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  lib64gcc1 libc6-amd64
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vmware-player
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/67.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 190MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  vmware-player
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 211140 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vmware-player (from .../vmware-player_1%3a2.0.2-1~ppa2_i386.deb) ...
vmware-player-v2-0-1 license has already been accepted
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-player_1%3a2.0.2-1~ppa2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/devices/printer.png', which is also in package xfprint4
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-player_1%3a2.0.2-1~ppa2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I am confused what did I do incorrectly