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Re: libc6 update problems



Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 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.

Can you explain [briefly] why not -- I thought it was OK to do.

> 
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
Blessings,

Nigel

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