[Solved] Error installing Pencil2D on Linux (conflict with another Pencil)

Hello,

I had an error when I was installing Pencil2D on my computer. The messages are:

sudo dpkg -i pencil2d_0.5.4-20130728.1_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for user:
(Lecture de la base de données… 530346 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du décompactage de pencil2d_0.5.4-20130728.1_amd64.deb …
Décompactage de pencil2d (0.5.4-20130728.1) …
dpkg: error processing archive pencil2d_0.5.4-20130728.1_amd64.deb (–install):
tentative de remplacement de « /usr/share/applications/pencil.desktop », qui appartient aussi au paquet evoluspencil 2.0.5
Traitement déclenché pour mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) …
Traitement déclenché pour gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) …
Traitement déclenché pour desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) …
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l’exécution :
pencil2d_0.5.4-20130728.1_amd64.deb`

(Sorry, it’s in french)

So, it seems that Pencil2D has a conflict with Pencil (evolus pencil). I unistalled evolus pencil and I could install Pencil2D.

sudo apt-get remove --purge evoluspencil

 

It would be nice that the devs change this folder name:

/usr/share/applications/pencil.desktop

/usr/share/applications/pencil2D.desktop

It would avoid this problem in case of the 2 applications are installed on the same computer.

@darckcrystale Thank you for letting us know this worked for you! So it seems there is a conflict between those two apps…When I get to create a system specific part of the FAQ i’ll take this into consideration. Thanks a lot for sharing. Merci <3!

You’re welcome!

De rien ! :wink: