Re: Problem with dpkg

[Leen Besselink <leen@wirehub.nl>]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Boris Boutillier wrote:

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> Does anyone know what to do when dpkg give such an output when
> installing a package :
> 
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/sbin/paperconfig.libc5'
> with
>   different file `/usr/sbin/paperconfig', not allowed
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> 
> I don't know how to solve this problem. I just installed the patato and
> had this problem. I think there should be an option but can't find which
> one.

Well if you mean you want to overwrite you should take a look at:
dpkg --force-help and what it says is, you can use this option to
overwrite:

dpkg --force-overwrite -i file.dpkg

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