procps bug

[sotnik]

The last DU failed to install procps with the following error message

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apt full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  procps
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/398 kB of archives.
After this operation, 176 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'procps' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 552690 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../procps_2%3a3.3.17-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking procps (2:3.3.17-2) over (2:3.3.17-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/procps_2%3a3.3.17-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/pl/man1/free.1.gz', which is also in package manpages-pl 1:4.2.0-1
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 new procps package post-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/procps_2%3a3.3.17-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)I have triedapt cleanapt autoremoveapt install -frm /var/lib/dpkg/info/procps.*
dpkg --configure -a

Nothing worked...

May I remove it?

[hendrikL]

https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=8226.msg66374#msg66374

[sotnik]

Thank you