bcooksley wrote:Please see http://askubuntu.com/questions/138284/h ... ia-apt-get for information on how to force apt-get to pick a particular version to install. It may be worth mentioning all of the glib packages it is warning have unmet dependencies (complete with their versions as well) to ensure this goes smoothly.

xplorer4x4@xplorer4x4-gbz77:~$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-0=2.36.0-1ubuntu2 libglib2.0-0:i386=2.36.0-1ubuntu2 libglib2.0-bin=2.36.0-1ubuntu2 libglib2.0-dev=2.36.0-1ubuntu2
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libglib2.0-bin is already the newest version.
libglib2.0-dev is already the newest version.
libglib2.0-0:i386 is already the newest version.
libglib2.0-0:i386 set to manually installed.
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
libglib2.0-0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 305 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/991 kB of archives.
After this operation, 197 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: warning: downgrading libglib2.0-0:amd64 from 2.37.6-1ubuntu1 to 2.36.0-1ubuntu2
(Reading database ... 152025 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libglib2.0-0:amd64 2.37.6-1ubuntu1 (using .../libglib2.0-0_2.36.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libglib2.0-0:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libglib2.0-0_2.36.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libglib2.0-0/NEWS.gz', which is different from other instances of package libglib2.0-0:amd64
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libglib2.0-0_2.36.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)