Re: problems with dist-upgrade (libarts)

[David Pashley <david@davidpashley.com>]

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On Saturday 05 October 2002 6:54 pm, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > /home/mschz/ROOT> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > (Reading database ... 55855 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking libartsflow-data (from .../libartsflow-data_1.1.0-1_all.deb)
> > ... dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libartsflow-data_1.1.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mcop/Arts/Synth_ADD.mcopclass', which is
> > also in package libarts1
>
> Looks like you have two versions of libarts, one of which is being
> replaced.
>
> To me, I think you should have purged kde before you did the dist-upgrade:
>
> apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l | grep kde`
>

This sadly will not work. you need to do:

apt-get --purge remove kdelibs4 libarts1

you can then just install kde again.

> After you dist-upgrade do:
>
> apt-get -f install
>
> if you need to clear things up.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Fred Ollinger

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David Pashley
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