Comment 3 for bug 390808

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Ian Barton (ian-manor-farm) wrote :

I am getting the errors below after doing a sudo aptitude purge screen-profiles
screen-profiles-extras screen.

Ian.

ian@scamper:~$ sudo aptitude install screen byobu byobu-extras
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  byobu byobu-extras python-newt{a} screen
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 663kB/711kB of archives. After unpacking 1741kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main byobu-extras 2.15-0ubuntu1~ppa3 [18.0kB]
Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main screen 4.0.3-11ubuntu4 [605kB]
Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main python-newt 0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3 [39.9kB]
Fetched 663kB in 3s (206kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package screen.
(Reading database ... 190481 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking screen (from .../screen_4.0.3-11ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-newt.
Unpacking python-newt (from .../python-newt_0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package byobu.
Unpacking byobu (from .../byobu_2.15-0ubuntu1~ppa3_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package byobu-extras.
Unpacking byobu-extras (from .../byobu-extras_2.15-0ubuntu1~ppa3_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up screen (4.0.3-11ubuntu4) ...
stat: cannot stat `/usr/bin/screen': No such file or directory
[: 10: -lt: unexpected operator

Setting up python-newt (0.52.2-11.3ubuntu3) ...

Setting up byobu (2.15-0ubuntu1~ppa3) ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
  when removing `diversion of /usr/bin/screen by byobu'
  found `diversion of /usr/bin/screen to /usr/bin/screen.real by screen-profiles'
dpkg: error processing byobu (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of byobu-extras:
 byobu-extras depends on byobu; however:
  Package byobu is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing byobu-extras (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 byobu
 byobu-extras
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up byobu (2.15-0ubuntu1~ppa3) ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
  when removing `diversion of /usr/bin/screen by byobu'
  found `diversion of /usr/bin/screen to /usr/bin/screen.real by screen-profiles'
dpkg: error processing byobu (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of byobu-extras:
 byobu-extras depends on byobu; however:
  Package byobu is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing byobu-extras (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 byobu
 byobu-extras
Reading package lists... Done