Comment 63 for bug 359518

remove the old one and install it again.
This is currently the best solution.
-Siddhartha

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From: Simbiosys <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 April, 2009 9:37:38 PM
Subject: [Bug 359518] Re: acroread failed to update in 8.10

same problem too.........

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acroread failed to update in 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359518
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of a duplicate bug.

Status in “acroread” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: acroread

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/acroread_9.1.0-7hardy1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files

acroread was being updated by Update Manager, but came up with the above message. So software wasn't updated.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2
SourcePackage: acroread
Title: package acroread 8.1.3-0medibuntu0.8.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is also in package acroread-debian-files
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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