Example error:
root@tutorialspots:~# sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-database-tools mongodb-org Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mongodb-org is already the newest version (5.0.8). The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libboost-filesystem1.71.0 libboost-iostreams1.71.0 libboost-program-options1.71.0 libgoogle-perftools4 libtcmalloc-minimal4 libyaml-cpp0.6 mongo-tools Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: mongodb-database-tools 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded. 8 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/46.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 52439 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mongodb-database-tools_100.5.2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mongodb-database-tools (100.5.2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mongodb-database-tools_100.5.2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/bsondump', which is also in package mongo-tools 3.6.3-0ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mongodb-database-tools_100.5.2_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
We see the main reason is trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/bsondump', which is also in package mongo-tools 3.6.3-0ubuntu1
Caused package: mongo-tools
Solution:
Step 1: find files to remove: sudo ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep -i package_name
Result:
root@tutorialspots:~# sudo ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep -i mongo-tools -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 727 Apr 12 13:53 mongo-tools.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1315 Apr 10 2018 mongo-tools.md5sums
Step 2: move or delete thoses files: sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/package_name.* /tmp
Example: sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/mongo-tools.* /tmp
Step 3: update the package manager: sudo apt-get update
Done!
