package wesnoth-1.8-core 1:1.8.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Actually, the divert handling in 1.10 has to get dropped. I missed that somehow when 1.10 got stable and didn't have 1.8 and 1.10 installed side-by-side. My bad. :/

I will prepare a patch for that and run it through the stable release process. In the meantime the only way around it that I can suggest is deinstall either wesnoth-1.8-core or wesnoth-1.10-core and keep the version you plan to play for the time being.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Rhonda

Actually, from looking closer, I've done it (almost) properly in 1.10 and never fixed the code in 1.8. If you install wesnoth-1.8 *before* you install wesnoth-1.10 (which is the usual flow of things, since wesnoth-1.8 is the older stable release ...) it works and the divert will stay with wesnoth-1.8. If you though install wesnoth-1.10 *before* you install wesnoth-1.8 you stumble into the issue. Installation order is important here, so if you want to have both versions around, first deinstall wesnoth-1.10, then install wesnoth-1.8 first and wesnoth-1.10 second.

While I don't really understand why one would install wesnoth-1.8 after installing wesnoth-1.10, the fix for wesnoth-1.10 is like mentioned above dropping the whole divert handling, which I'll prepare within the next few days. It will flow into the soonish to be uploaded 1.10.3 version, and I'll extract that part and run it through the stable update process.

Enjoy!
Rhonda

Great, thanks. I discovered this solution similarly. Sorry I didn't
update the bug report, Ubuntu was doing it all automatically so I wasn't
paying a great deal of attention. I had installed Wesnoth 1.10 because
it was the most recent version, but then a friend of mine only had
Wesnoth 1.8 and we wanted to play a networked game so I tried installing
1.8 in parallel.

I guess the downfall of having multiple versions in the repositories
designed to be installed side-by-side.

Thanks for checking into it.

On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 09:09 +0000, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Actually, from looking closer, I've done it (almost) properly in 1.10
> and never fixed the code in 1.8. If you install wesnoth-1.8 *before*
> you install wesnoth-1.10 (which is the usual flow of things, since
> wesnoth-1.8 is the older stable release ...) it works and the divert
> will stay with wesnoth-1.8. If you though install wesnoth-1.10 *before*
> you install wesnoth-1.8 you stumble into the issue. Installation order
> is important here, so if you want to have both versions around, first
> deinstall wesnoth-1.10, then install wesnoth-1.8 first and wesnoth-1.10
> second.
>
> While I don't really understand why one would install wesnoth-1.8 after
> installing wesnoth-1.10, the fix for wesnoth-1.10 is like mentioned
> above dropping the whole divert handling, which I'll prepare within the
> next few days. It will flow into the soonish to be uploaded 1.10.3
> version, and I'll extract that part and run it through the stable update
> process.
>
> Enjoy!
> Rhonda
>
> ** Changed in: wesnoth-1.8 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Medium => Low
>

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