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title: Resolve conflict of auto-completion script when installing some packages
date: 2025-02-27 11:00:26.422002 UTC
---
If we have [Fish](https://fishshell.com/) installed and try to install pretty new softwares via APT package manager (on Ubuntu), we may encounter this error:

```
Error: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/just_1.35.0-1build1_amd64.deb (--unpack):

Error: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/just_1.35.0-1build1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/fish/completions/just.fish', which is also in package fish 4.0b1-1~oracular
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/fish/completions/just.fish', which is also in package fish 4.0b1-1~oracular

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/just_1.35.0-1build1_amd64.deb
```

The reason is that, Fish pre-included an auto-completion script for that software, and that software also come with its own Fish-based auto-completion script, trying to install to the same location as Fish one.

The quick solution is to tell package manager to move the second script to another place: 

```sh
> sudo dpkg-divert --package just --divert /usr/share/fish/completions/just.fish.upstream --rename /usr/share/fish/completions/just.fish 
``` 

The true solution is that, the new software needs to install its script to another place that Fish reserves for, */usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/*.