Error when installing clipgrab on Trusty

Question

I wanted to install clipgrab on Trusty, but get the following error when running sudo apt-get install clipgrab (I added the PPA and ran apt-get update):

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  clipgrab
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 351 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/203 kB of archives.
After this operation, 713 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 247242 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../clipgrab_3.4.2~trusty3_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking clipgrab (3.4.2~trusty3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive     /var/cache/apt/archives/clipgrab_3.4.2~trusty3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/ffmpeg', which is also in package ffmpeg 7:2.3-1~trusty
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/clipgrab_3.4.2~trusty3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As far as I can understand, the installation process has a problem with ffmpeg already existing. How can I fix this?

This sounds like bad packaging, and no fault on your part. I would contact the maintainer and notify him/her of this, and to either add ffmpeg as a Conflicts or rename or not include the ffmpeg binary. — saiarcot895, Jul 29 '14 at 21:20
@saiarcot895 any reason why you commented instead of answering? Just curious. — kraxor, Jul 29 '14 at 21:49
@kraxor: I guess I'm just used to commenting. Changed to an answer. — saiarcot895, Jul 29 '14 at 22:01
@saiarcot895 this is like a reverse of the "not an answer" flag :) — kraxor, Jul 29 '14 at 22:05
Possible duplicate of dpkg error: "trying to overwrite file, which is also in..." — karel, Jun 25 '19 at 07:57

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '14 at 22:02

This looks like bad packaging on the part of the PPA maintainer, and no fault on your part. I would contact the maintainer and notify him/her of this, and to either:

add ffmpeg as a Conflicts,
rename this binary, or
not include this binary (if it is the same as the one in ffmpeg).

Error when installing clipgrab on Trusty

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