Re: error installing debconf
> I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows:
>
> tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 28 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 118kB of archives. After unpacking 62.5kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main debconf 0.2.65 [118kB]
> Fetched 118kB in 26s (4489B/s)
> Configuring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 77408 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement debconf ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package sudo with nondirectory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
> tsuess:~#
>
> I would also love to know how to fix this as it is preventing the other 28
> packages I downloaded from completing the dist-upgrade.
>
I do not know about the fix, but
apt-get install package_name
might let you have the other 28 packages.
> Regards,
>
> Todd
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> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> > Greetings everyone. I'm having a problem trying to install debconf.
> > I just did a full upgrade to potato this evening. I then tried to
> > install a new package (everybuddy) that relied on debconf. When
> > apt-get went to install debconf I got the error:
> >
> > HAL9000:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> > (Reading database ... 69770 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking debconf (from debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--install):
> > trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package libcurses-perl with nondirectory
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> >
> > When I examined the .deb using mc I found that there is a shell script
> > called /usr/sbin - the header of which says that it reconfigures a
> > package by running the package's confmodule and then the postinst.
> >
> > Can anyone here let me know how to fix this?
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