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gtk+1.2 package

Updating libswt-gtk in synaptic yields error and breaks eclipse

Bug #23386 reported by Nathan Meryash
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gtk+1.2 (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

The following error is given when attempting to upgrade or repair libswt3.1-gtk
in Synaptic.

===error message============================================
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libswt3.1-gtk-java_3.1-10ubuntu1_all.deb: trying to
overwrite `/usr/share/java/swt-gtk-3.1.jar', which is also in package
libswt-gtk-3.1-java
============================================================

This gives the following error message when trying to launch eclipse.

===error message============================================
A suitible Java Virtual Machine for running the Eclipse platform could not be
located.
============================================================

Revision history for this message
Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. However, libswt-gtk is a part of the 'universe'
component, so its bugs are not currently tracked in this system. Bugs for these
packages should be reported to Malone: [WWW]
https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone/distros/ubuntu

For more information about universe packages, contact the MOTU team: [WWW]
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU

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Nathan Meryash (ngmlinux) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)

I've reposted the bug as per your suggestions at:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/2954

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