Serpent compiler name ("sc") already in-use for good old linux "spreadsheet calculator"

MarioFortierMarioFortier Boston, MAMember Posts: 30
edited January 2015 in Serpent
This is an example of what to expect while some users try to install from the Ethereum PPA:

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Unpacking ethereum (0.8.0+187SNAPSHOT20150102151527trusty-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ethereum_0.8.0+187SNAPSHOT20150102151527trusty-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/sc', which is also in package sc 7.16-3
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ethereum_0.8.0+187SNAPSHOT20150102151527trusty-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have already resolved the above by uninstalling the spreadsheet calculator... but a rename of the serpent compiler to something not widely used would prevent same issue to others down the road.
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