packaging issue with libgstreamer-plugins-base

[cristim]

I just started getting this error.

Preparing to unpack .../libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1_i386.deb ... Unpacking libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 (1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1) over (1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gst-plugins-base-1.0.mo', which is different from other instances of package libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

I run a 64bit Ubuntu 16.04.

[xhaakon]

Do you need those 32bit packages installed alongside your 64bit ones for anything? Otherwise you may as well just remove them.

It looks to me you have to update both libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 and libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64 at once, but only *:i386 wants to update on your machine for some reason. I'd try something like

apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 and libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64

to force the installation.

Could you provide dpkg --list with all gstreamer packages and their versions you have installed at the moment?

[cristim]

I can't just remove them, I still have other packages installed which depend on them, for example wine and skype.

sudo dpkg --list | grep gst
ii  gir1.2-clutter-gst-3.0:amd64                          3.0.18-1                                                          amd64        Gobject introspection data for Clutter GStreamer elements
iU  gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0                           1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        Description: GObject introspection data for the GStreamer Plugins Base library
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0                                  1.8.1-1~ubuntu1                                                   amd64        Description: GObject introspection data for the GStreamer library
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64                              0.10.36-2                                                         amd64        GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3:amd64                       0.10.29.debian-1ubuntu1                                           amd64        Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer 0.10 plugin
ii  gstreamer0.10-gconf:amd64                             0.10.31-3+nmu4ubuntu2~gcc5.1                                      amd64        GStreamer plugin for getting the sink/source information from GConf
ii  gstreamer0.10-nice:amd64                              0.1.13+sipe+collab-201603090603+2222~ubuntu16.04.1                amd64        ICE library (GStreamer 0.10 plugin)
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64                      0.10.36-2                                                         amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps                       0.10.36-2                                                         amd64        GStreamer helper programs from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:amd64                      0.10.31-3+nmu4ubuntu2~gcc5.1                                      amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly:amd64                      0.10.19-2.1ubuntu3                                                amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64                        0.10.31-3+nmu4ubuntu2~gcc5.1                                      amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  gstreamer0.10-tools                                   0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1                                                amd64        Tools for use with GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-x:amd64                                 0.10.36-2                                                         amd64        GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
iU  gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64                               1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer1.0-clutter                                  2.0.18-1                                                          amd64        Clutter PLugin for GStreamer 1.0
ii  gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0                              3.0.18-1                                                          amd64        Clutter PLugin for GStreamer 1.0
ii  gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3:amd64                        0.10.32.debian-1                                                  amd64        Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer 1.0 plugin
ii  gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64                              1.8.1-1~ubuntu1                                                   amd64        libav plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer1.0-nice:amd64                               0.1.14~sipe-0+201606011231~ubuntu16.04.1                          amd64        ICE library (GStreamer plugin)
iU  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64                        1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011136~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
iU  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad:amd64                   1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011136~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer faad plugin from the "bad" set
iU  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers:amd64           1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011136~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer videoparsers plugin from the "bad" set
iU  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64                       1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
iU  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps                        1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer helper programs from the "base" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64                       1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1                                                  amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64                       1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1                                                  amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr:amd64                   1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1                                                  amd64        GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64                         1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1                                                  amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  gstreamer1.0-tools                                    1.8.1-1~ubuntu1                                                   amd64        Tools for use with GStreamer
iU  gstreamer1.0-x:amd64                                  1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii  libclutter-gst-2.0-0:amd64                            2.0.18-1                                                          amd64        Open GL based interactive canvas library GStreamer elements
ii  libclutter-gst-3.0-0:amd64                            3.0.18-1                                                          amd64        Open GL based interactive canvas library GStreamer elements
rc  libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0:amd64                  0.10.23-8.1ubuntu3                                                amd64        GStreamer shared libraries from the "bad" set
iU  libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64                   1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011136~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer development files for libraries from the "bad" set
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:amd64                 0.10.36-2                                                         amd64        GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
rc  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386                  0.10.36-2                                                         i386         GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
iU  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64                  1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606011225~ubuntu16.04.1                    amd64        GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386                   1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1                                                  i386         GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0:amd64                  1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1                                                  amd64        GStreamer development files for libraries from the "good" set
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0:amd64                              0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1                                                amd64        Core GStreamer libraries and elements
rc  libgstreamer0.10-0:i386                               0.10.36-1.5ubuntu1                                                i386         Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64                               1.8.1-1~ubuntu1                                                   amd64        Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0:i386                                1.8.1-1~ubuntu1                                                   i386         Core GStreamer libraries and elements
ii  libqgsttools-p1:amd64                                 5.5.1-4ubuntu2                                                    amd64        GStreamer tools for  Qt 5 Multimedia module
ii  libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer                 1:5.1.3-0ubuntu1                                                  amd64        GStreamer backend for LibreOffice
ii  phonon-backend-gstreamer:amd64                        4:4.8.2-0ubuntu2                                                  amd64        Phonon GStreamer 1.0 backend
ii  phonon-backend-gstreamer-common:amd64                 4:4.8.2-0ubuntu2                                                  amd64        Phonon GStreamer 1.0.x backend icons
ii  python-gst0.10                                        0.10.22-3ubuntu3                                                  amd64        generic media-playing framework (Python bindings)

[xnandersson]

Yeah, something is fishy. I get:

root@swordfish:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 The following packages will be upgraded: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 49 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/712 kB of archives. After this operation, 528 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 383834 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606020827~ubuntu16.04.1_i386.deb ... Unpacking libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 (1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606020827~ubuntu16.04.1) over (1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606020827~ubuntu16.04.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gst-plugins-base-1.0.mo', which is different from other instances of package libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0_1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606020827~ubuntu16.04.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[xnandersson]

...and

root@swordfish:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 : Breaks: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 (!= 1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606020827~ubuntu16.04.1) but 1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1 is installed libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:i386 : Breaks: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (!= 1.8.1-1ubuntu0.1) but 1.8.1-1ubuntu1+sipe+201606020827~ubuntu16.04.1 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

[xhaakon]

Yeah the *.mo files form amd64 and i386 versions differ in creation timestamps

POT-Creation-Date: 2016-04-21 08:54+0200

I'm trying to deal with it somehow.

To me this is bad packaging because those files shouldn't be in an architecture-specific package in the first place. One normally creates a separate *-common package declared as Architecture: all in debian/control that houses shared non-binary files. I don't know how official Ubuntu releases do it that they have all the timestamps right and their files are bit-by-bit identical.

[xhaakon]

@xnandersson @cristim Please try to update, at least GStreamer base should be fixed now.

[xnandersson]

@xhaakon Updated! And it seems fixed :-) I also run "apt-get -f install" before. Issue resolved I think.

[xnandersson]

Update on another computer worked flawlessly. I suggest we can close this one.

[cristim]

I confirm, this issue is fixed.

I also had some other issues on my machine as a result of multiple PPAs interacting in a strange way and blocking me to reinstall skype even after I managed to update the gstreamer packages, but I eventually traced them to some other package and I managed to get it fixed. Sorry for the delay, but it took quite a bit of time to figure out what exactly was wrong.