7.10 update: gimp overwrite error
On doing an update through Update Manager in 7.10 the update process stopped with an error when updating gimp. When I re-ran Update Manager I got the following message:
"It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first."
I tried 'sudo apt-get --fix-broken install' in Terminal and got the following output:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gimp
Suggested packages:
gimp-help-en gimp-help libgimp-perl gimp-data-extras
Recommended packages:
gimp-gnomevfs gimp-libcurl
The following packages will be upgraded:
gimp
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3902kB of archives.
After unpacking 373kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 100954 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gimp 2.4.0~rc3-1ubuntu4 (using .../gimp_
Unpacking replacement gimp ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Until I can fix this I am unable to update any packages. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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