I just upgraded to Kubuntu 12.04. The upgrade process always removes cups-pdf so when I tried to re-install it I received a notification that it needs to remove kmymoney (not kmymoney-common) in order to complete the installation.

Subsequent system updates have also requested that kmymoney be removed. The issue seems to be the package libalkimia4.

My netbook, which is also running Kubuntu 12.04 has no such issues, I'm guessing because this is running 32-bit.

So I went ahead and installed the updates, removing kmymoney in the process. I then tried to re-install kmymoney and get the following error:

Package: /var/cache/apt/archives/libalkimia4_4.3.1-1_amd64.deb
Error: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/FindLibAlkimia.cmake', which is also in package libalkimia 4.3.1-0ubuntu1~ppa6

Any ideas?

Thanks

Nick

the strange thing is that if you look at the contents of the package there's not supposed to be FindLibAlkimia.cmake and I dl'ed the .deb and looked and there wasn't

http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/amd6 ... y/filelist
Filelist of package kmymoney in precise of architecture amd64

Code: Select all

/usr/bin/kmymoney
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmm_icalendarexport.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmm_printcheck.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kmm_csvimport.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kmm_icalendarexport.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kmm_kbanking.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kmm_ofximport.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kmm_printcheck.so
/usr/lib/kde4/kmm_reconciliationreport.so
/usr/lib/libkmm_kdchart.so.4
/usr/lib/libkmm_kdchart.so.4.8.0
/usr/lib/libkmm_mymoney.so.4
/usr/lib/libkmm_mymoney.so.4.8.0
/usr/lib/libkmm_plugin.so.4
/usr/lib/libkmm_plugin.so.4.8.0
/usr/lib/libkmm_widgets.so.4
/usr/lib/libkmm_widgets.so.4.8.0
/usr/share/applications/kde4/kmymoney.desktop
/usr/share/doc/kmymoney/README.Fileformats
/usr/share/doc/kmymoney/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/kmymoney/copyright
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/kmymoney
/usr/share/man/man1/kmymoney.1.gz
/usr/share/menu/kmymoney
/usr/share/pixmaps/kmymoney.xpm

There's something wrong with the packages in Kubuntu (not news, unfortunately). You should be probably fine if you force the installation and tell it to go ahead and overwrite that file. That file is required for compiling from scratch, so it won't affect you installing a binary

Thanks, I forced the installation and all seems ok.

One other thing...

I completed the install from the command line however my package manager indicates kmymoney is "broken" even though it is running ok. Can I do anything to make it think it isn't broken?

Hei Ku wrote:There's something wrong with the packages in Kubuntu (not news, unfortunately). You should be probably fine if you force the installation and tell it to go ahead and overwrite that file. That file is required for compiling from scratch, so it won't affect you installing a binary

Can you please clarify - I read this to mean something is wrong with other packages in Kubuntu and not something wrong with the KMyMoney packages in Kubuntu?

It's just that I keep on tripping over this (just tried to install KShutdown and that also wants to remove KMyMoney) so I'd like to understand what it is I'm saying before I file a bug report with Kubuntu.

Thanks

Nick

You could try uninstalling it, remove that offending file, and then reinstall. It might work ok this time.

I'm going to give this a go.

BTW I use claydoh's PPA so am I right in thinking that the problem isn't anything to do with the packages in Kubuntu?

Hei Ku wrote:You could try uninstalling it, remove that offending file, and then reinstall. It might work ok this time.

This did the trick.

I uninstalled KMyMoney, removed libalkimia, then reinstalled KMyMoney - it wanted to install libalkimia as part of the reinstallation which I let it do.

Everything seems happy now, no more issues when installing/removing other packages.

Thanks for your help.

Sorry for being behind on this. It is definitely my ppa and NOT Ubuntu's packages

Ubuntu's Universe component are for the most part an automated sync with debian, and as KMyMoney is in Universe, it is one of those direct ports. As is libalkimia, which is the culprit here on my end. There was no libalkimia in Debian until recently, and when it was added, it was named libalkimia4, while mine is called simply libalkimia. So during the upgrade to 12.04 my libalkimia was not removed as it is seen packaging-wise as a separate entity from libalkimia4.

So it is simply the result of a numb and stupid packager doing his handiwork in a ppa and not the perpetual and quite false "Kubuntu's packages are junk" stuff.

What is kind of funny is the Debian package was basically copied from my PPA. It would have been super cool if I could have been corrected on this, or at least directed to the proper naming conventions (why it has to be libalkimia4)

Thanks for the update, also thanks for providing your ppa, I really appreciate it.

Also I'm glad I didn't go complaining to the Kubuntu team about this, my gut feel was that this wasn't their issue!

NickElliott wrote:Thanks for the update, also thanks for providing your ppa, I really appreciate it.

Also I'm glad I didn't go complaining to the Kubuntu team about this, my gut feel was that this wasn't their issue!

That would have been ok, they would have directed you to contact the PPA's owner, or if you had gone to Kubuntuforums, I would have seen it myself.