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I actually selected package iputils-arping, but the UI keeps reverting
to iputils

** Also affects: iputils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  iputils-arping conflicts with package arping because of same name

Status in arping package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I need to scan for an ip address based on MAC address and wanted to
  use the utility arping.

  Unfortunatly there are TWO different versions of the program with the
  exact same name. arping has dependancies with network-manager network-
  manager-gnome and ubuntu-desktop making the package arping impossible
  to install as iputils-arping is default. And iputils-arping doesn't
  have the option to use a MAC address to arp to receive the IP address.

  This discussion (from 2005) sums it up in the end as well. (why does this issue still exist?)
  http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/how-to-find-ip-address-of-a-machine-if-i-know-their-mac-address-353239/

  What procedure needs to be followed in order to get one of the
  programmers to rename their program, or to repackage the ubuntu
  package arping so that it creates  /usr/bin/arpingmac or something
  similar instead of the naming conflict?

  kat@tabbykat:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:	11.04

  arping:
    Geïnstalleerd: (geen)
    Kandidaat:     2.09-2
    Versietabel:
       2.09-2 0
          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages

  kat@tabbykat:~$ apt-cache policy iputils-arping
  iputils-arping:
    Geïnstalleerd: 3:20100418-3ubuntu1
    Kandidaat:     3:20100418-3ubuntu1
    Versietabel:
   *** 3:20100418-3ubuntu1 0
          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  What I expected to happen:
  arping -i eth1 00:E0:29:XX:YY:ZZ
  returns
  60 bytes from 192.168.0.AAA (00:e0:29:XX:YY:ZZ): icmp_seq=0 time=47.922 usec

  What I really get
  kat@tabbykat:~$ arping -I eth0 00:21:00:xx:xx:xx
  arping: unknown host 00:21:00:xx:xx:xx

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: arping (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 25 08:36:38 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=nl_NL:en
   LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: arping
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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