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There has been an update around for two weeks which does not install, when I update my packages I get this:

Fatal error: Error while installing package: trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libsdl2-2.0-0/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libsdl2-2.0-0

How to fix this?

apt-cache policy libsdl2-2.0-0 gives this:

libsdl2-2.0-0: Installed: 2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.4 Candidate: 2.0.10+dfsg1-3 Version table: 2.0.10+dfsg1-3 500 500 http://lt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages *** 2.0.8+dfsg1-1ubuntu1.18.04.4 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

m27
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  • Try sudo apt install --reinstall libsdl2-2.0-0 – user535733 Sep 02 '20 at 16:48
  • got this:

    dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.10+dfsg1-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libsdl2-2.0-0/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libsdl2-2.0-0:amd64 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.10+dfsg1-3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

     – m27 Sep 02 '20 at 16:53
  • Please edit your question to include the complete output of apt-cache policy libsdl2-2.0-0 – user535733 Sep 02 '20 at 16:58
  • question edited – m27 Sep 02 '20 at 17:21
  • Looks like your old version is from the 18.04 repositories, and your new version is from the 20.04 repositories. Did you recently run do-release-upgrade? Or did your release-upgrade some other way? (Be specific) Or is this not a release-upgrade, but you are mixing package from different versions of Ubuntu? – user535733 Sep 02 '20 at 17:25
  • sorry I am not able to answer that question because I do not know the answer.... – m27 Sep 02 '20 at 17:27
  • But I think did the upgrade using GUI. and during the process my laptop died. Since then I have this issue – m27 Sep 02 '20 at 17:47
  • is it possible to fix this? – m27 Sep 03 '20 at 14:16
  • Easily: dpkg has a --force-overwrite option. Is this the only problem you have as a result of the poweroff? If there are others, it may be worthwhile to backup your data and reinstall. – user535733 Sep 03 '20 at 14:20

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