Similar to another bug reported.
I also fail to understand why apt wants to remove gnome-games.
tacone@tacone-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install glchess
[sudo] password for tacone:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gnuchess
Suggested packages:
xboard eboard
Recommended packages:
python-opengl libgtkglext1 python-gtkglext1 gnuchess-book
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-games
The following NEW packages will be installed:
glchess gnuchess
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 287kB of archives.
After this operation, 598kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe gnuchess 5.07-4 [90.9kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe glchess 1.0+debian-1 [196kB]
Fetched 287kB in 0s (430kB/s)
(Reading database ... 248576 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gnome-games ...
Selecting previously deselected package gnuchess.
(Reading database ... 248517 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gnuchess (from .../gnuchess_5.07-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package glchess.
Unpacking glchess (from .../glchess_1.0+debian-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up gnuchess (5.07-4) ...
Setting up glchess (1.0+debian-1) ...
/usr/sbin/update-python-modules:125: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated
raise "Trying to overwrite %s which is already provided by %s"%(os.path.join(dir,file),otherdir)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 339, in <module>
process(basedir,install_modules(py_installed))
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 160, in process
func(basedir, dir, file)
File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 125, in install_modules_func
raise "Trying to overwrite %s which is already provided by %s"%(os.path.join(dir,file),otherdir)
Trying to overwrite glchess/__init__.py which is already provided by /usr/share/python-support/gnome-games-data
dpkg: error processing glchess (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
glchess
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
after removal of the partial installed glchess, i apt-getted gnome-games.
Now, trying to launch gnuchess leds to a crash.
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy)
Gnome Release: 2.22.1 2008-05-07 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0
System: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP Thu May 1 14:31:33 UTC 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10400090
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: OSX-theme
Icon Theme: Human
Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0
----------- .xsession-errors (194654 sec old) -------
[4836f401][chat]: Mase: win
[4836f403][chat]: *** [SeOg] Tee joined the blue team
[4836f403][chat]: Baddi: 2.!!!
[4836f404][client]: input was late with -12 ms
[4836f406][client]: input was late with -3 ms
[4836f409][chat]: -=|TSE|=- dane : 1!!!!!!!!!
[4836f409][chat]: Mase: wund !!!!
[4836f40b][client]: input was late with -3 ms
[4836f40d][client]: input was late with -4 ms
[4836f40f][chat]: *** KOPOBA has left the game
[4836f413][client]: input was late with -92 ms
[4836f414][client]: input was late with -4 ms
[4836f417][client]: input was late with -2 ms
...Too much output, ignoring rest...
-------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/games/
start_game()
File "/var/lib/
import main
ImportError: No module named main