Installation of rust version 1.49.0-nightly with profile "complete" fails to install

[ctsrc]

Problem

When installing rust version 1.49.0-nightly with profile "complete", the installation fails with the following error:

error: failed to install component: 'rustc-docs-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu', detected conflict: '"share/doc/rust/html/rustc"'

Steps

1. curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
2. Choose customize installation.

• Default host triple? Leave as is
• Default toolchain? nightly
• Profile (which tools and data to install)? complete

3. Proceed with installation

Possible Solution(s)

Notes

Output:

info: profile set to 'complete'
info: setting default host triple to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: latest update on 2020-10-11, rust version 1.49.0-nightly (b1af43bc6 2020-10-10)
warning: Force-skipping unavailable component 'miri-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: downloading component 'cargo'
info: downloading component 'clippy'
info: downloading component 'llvm-tools-preview'
 20.0 MiB /  20.0 MiB (100 %)  13.1 MiB/s in  1s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rls'
info: downloading component 'rust-analysis'
info: downloading component 'rust-analyzer-preview'
  5.2 MiB /   5.2 MiB (100 %)   2.2 MiB/s in  1s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rust-docs'
info: downloading component 'rust-src'
info: downloading component 'rust-std'
 22.2 MiB /  22.2 MiB (100 %)  13.4 MiB/s in  1s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rustc'
 55.1 MiB /  55.1 MiB (100 %)  12.8 MiB/s in  4s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rustc-dev'
 92.9 MiB /  92.9 MiB (100 %)  12.5 MiB/s in  7s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rustc-docs'
 10.2 MiB /  10.2 MiB (100 %)   2.3 MiB/s in  2s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rustfmt'
info: installing component 'cargo'
info: Defaulting to 500.0 MiB unpack ram
info: installing component 'clippy'
info: installing component 'llvm-tools-preview'
 20.0 MiB /  20.0 MiB (100 %)   7.3 MiB/s in  2s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rls'
  8.3 MiB /   8.3 MiB (100 %)   7.3 MiB/s in  1s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rust-analysis'
info: installing component 'rust-analyzer-preview'
info: installing component 'rust-docs'
 13.4 MiB /  13.4 MiB (100 %)   3.9 MiB/s in  3s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rust-src'
info: installing component 'rust-std'
 22.2 MiB /  22.2 MiB (100 %)   6.4 MiB/s in  3s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rustc'
 55.1 MiB /  55.1 MiB (100 %)   6.9 MiB/s in  8s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rustc-dev'
 92.9 MiB /  92.9 MiB (100 %)   6.8 MiB/s in 14s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rustc-docs'
 10.2 MiB /  10.2 MiB (100 %)   3.9 MiB/s in  3s ETA:  0s
info: rolling back changes
error: failed to install component: 'rustc-docs-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu', detected conflict: '"share/doc/rust/html/rustc"'

[ehuss]

The complete profile should almost never be used, as it will usually fail due to missing or broken components. This particular problem is a known issue with the rustc-docs component (rust-lang/rust#75833).

[ctsrc]

Ok, thanks I will close this issue then.