[gNewSense-users] error installing mercurial in mipsel

[Daniel Molina]

I installed mercurial in a yeeloong and I obtained this:

$ sudo apt-get install mercurial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  qct python-mysqldb python-subversion
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mercurial
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/97.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 401kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package mercurial.
(Reading database ... 183000 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mercurial (from .../mercurial_1.0.1-5.1_mipsel.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up mercurial (1.0.1-5.1) ...
Enabling hgk extension
Enabling highlight extension
Enabling inotify extension

Creating config file /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgext.rc with new version
Usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...]
       update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...]
       update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f|-p]

update-python-modules: error: Trying to overwrite
hgext/inotify/common.py which is already provided
by /usr/share/python-support/mercurial-common
dpkg: error processing mercurial (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)