Installation of neofetch fails as already included in armbian-config package- potentially confusing to new users- not sure where Package file for armbian-config is

[jayenn]

Installed 24.8.4 on OrangePi Zero2. Assumed I would need to install neofetch to launch it, so didn't even try to run it before going straight to 'apt install neofetch'. On attempting to install, I saw the following:

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dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/neofetch_7.1.0-4_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/neofetch', which is also in package armbian-config 24.11.1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/neofetch_7.1.0-4_all.deb

Reason is that armbian-config package includes /usr/bin/neofetch.

 

To avoid confusion for new users, it seems like it would be good to either have armbian-config depend on neofetch instead of including the bash script that that package includes*, or have the Package file for armbian-config lock out the installation of neofetch (I think the Provides, Replaces, and Conflicts directives might be needed for that). I had a look around the https://github.com/armbian/configng and https://github.com/armbian/config repos, but couldn't spot where the Package file is/is generated. Could someone point me in the right direction as to where that would be populated?

 

* I can only imagine that it's kept as part of the Armbian armbian-config package to ease addition of new devices before they are added upstream and that filters down to the Ubuntu/Debian stable distributions

Edited 13 hours ago by jayenn