• Bug#1100108: neovim: update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/

    From Jochen Sprickerhof@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 11 14:00:01 2025
    Package: neovim
    Version: 0.10.4-6
    Severity: normal

    # apt upgrade
    Upgrading:
    neovim neovim-runtime

    Summary:
    Upgrading: 2, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
    Download size: 6861 kB
    Space needed: 3072 B / 6971 MB available

    Continue? [Y/n]
    Get:1 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/main amd64 neovim amd64 0.10.4-6 [2275 kB]
    Get:2 http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable/main amd64 neovim-runtime all 0.10.4-6 [4586 kB]
    Fetched 6861 kB in 1s (4777 kB/s)
    (Reading database ... 6004 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../neovim_0.10.4-6_amd64.deb ...
    Unpacking neovim (0.10.4-6) over (0.10.4-5) ...
    Preparing to unpack .../neovim-runtime_0.10.4-6_all.deb ...
    Unpacking neovim-runtime (0.10.4-6) over (0.10.4-5) ...
    Setting up neovim-runtime (0.10.4-6) ...
    Setting up neovim (0.10.4-6) ...
    update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/bin/rvim is already managed by rvim
    dpkg: error processing package neovim (--configure):
    installed neovim package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    neovim
    Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    Cheers Jochen


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: trixie/sid
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages neovim depends on:
    ii libc6 2.41-4
    ii libluajit-5.1-2 2.1.0+openresty20250117-2
    ii libmsgpack-c2 6.0.1-3+b1
    ii libtree-sitter0 0.22.6-4
    ii libunibilium4 2.1.1-2+b1
    ii libuv1t64 1.50.0-2
    ii libvterm0 0.3.3-3+b1
    ii lua-lpeg 1.1.0-2
    ii lua-luv 1.48.0-2-3
    ii neovim-runtime 0.10.4-6

    Versions of packages neovim recommends:
    ii python3-pynvim 0.5.0-2
    ii xclip 0.13-4
    pn xxd <none>

    Versions of packages neovim suggests:
    pn ctags <none>
    pn vim-scripts <none>

    -- no debconf information

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