Problem Installing Tgicl

Question

[sharanya.ravi]

Hi I am tryign to install TGICL but when i do so I am getting the following error . What must I do to succesfully install this.

sudo dpkg -i perl-tgicl_2.1-1_all.deb
[sudo] password for ibsupm: 
(Reading database ... 148295 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl-tgicl (from perl-tgicl_2.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing perl-tgicl_2.1-1_all.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/formatdb', which is also in package blast2 1:2.2.25.20110713-3ubuntu2
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 perl-tgicl_2.1-1_all.deb

Thank you

[SES]

Have you tried building the package from source? Just untar it and run perl Build.PL, and that will indicate any missing dependencies. Using the package manager is supposed to be a convenience but it is often easier to just build the package.

Answer 1

[Leszek]

Try running:

sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite perl-tgicl_2.1-1_all.deb

Note, this will overwrite previously installed version of formatdb.

[Neilfws]

I do not recommend this. The TGICL deb package is dated 2010. It is probably not a good idea to force overwrite of the newer files from the Linux distribution repository.

Answer 2

[Neilfws]

Note that perl-tgicl_2.1-1_all.deb dates from 2010. You cannot expect it to be synchronised correctly with your current Linux distribution packages.

I would not use this package; install from source as suggested by SES.