Bug 272052 – file collision between kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.9 and app-editors/kile-2.0.0

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description tfurmston 2009-06-01 08:10:08 UTC]

I tried to install kile 2.0.
The install failed with the errorERROR: preinst
This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other
packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq
owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a
file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do
NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at
least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s).
If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from
then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough
information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file
a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which
two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file
a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message.

Detected file collision(s):

        /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/katepart/syntax/bibtex.xml
        /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/katepart/syntax/latex.xml

Searching all installed packages for file collisions...

Press Ctrl-C to Stop

kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.9-r4
        /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/katepart/syntax/bibtex.xml
        /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/katepart/syntax/latex.xml

Package 'app-editors/kile-2.0.3-r1' NOT merged due to file collisions.
If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
above message.

I've tried re-syncing portage, as suggested on https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269849, but I still get the same error.

[Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-06-01 08:23:24 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 250349 ***