Re: libc6 update problems

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:20:36AM +0300, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Grahame White wrote:
> > I just tried doing an aptitude upgrade but I'm getting the following 
> > errors:
> > 
> > Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.5-3_amd64.deb 
> > (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package xmms-kde

This looks like a bug in the xmms-kde package, but libc6 really
shouldn't be adding that either.

I suggest you remove xmms-kde for now.

> DPkg
> {
>    // Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
>       Options {"--force-overwrite";}
> }
> 
> Then, whenever the situation arises, dpkg will automatically overwrite
> the common file.

Please don't do that.



Kurt