[Tex/LaTex] Problems in installing the latest edition of Texmaker

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I am trying to install Texmaker 4.1 on 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I downloaded the file from the official site and I am trying to install by using the following command:

sudo dpkg -i texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.1_i386.deb

However, this results in an error of whose origin I am unable to pinpoint. The error message is as follows:

$ sudo dpkg -i texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.1_i386.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package texmaker.
(Reading database ... 617874 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking texmaker (from texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.1_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/texmaker/doc14hu.png', which is also in package texmaker-data 3.4-1~ubuntu12.04.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.1_i386.deb

What can I do to remedy the situation? Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.

Best Answer

I've run into the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS 64-bit, Texmaker 4.3:

sudo dpkg --install texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.3_amd64.deb 
(Reading database ... 382851 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking texmaker (from texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.3_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.3_amd64.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/texmaker/usermanual_fr.html', which is also in package texmaker-data 3.2-1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.3_amd64.deb

I forced the over write as follows... sudo dpkg --install --force-overwrite texmaker_ubuntu_12.04_4.3_amd64.deb