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matt@localnode:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dictionaries-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dictionaries-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 276 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/191 kB of archives.
After this operation, 834 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dict-common::dc_set: dictionaries-common/default-wordlist is already set to
[american (American English)]. Preserving it.
(Reading database ... 207119 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dictionaries-common_1.23.17_all.deb ...
Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/dict/words to /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common by dictionaries-common'
dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common' with
different file `/usr/share/dict/words', not allowed
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/dictionaries-common_1.23.17_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/dictionaries-common_1.23.17_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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