Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems
didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. is there a way to
disasociate that file with netbase?
thneed:~# apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not
upgraded.
5 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2727kB of archives. After unpacking 2145kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 31064 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using
../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also in package netbase
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:36:01 +0100, Colin Watson whispered to the router:
!!On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 11:32:55 -0700, Forrest English wrote:
!! > thneed:/usr/bin# apt-get -o DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite -f
install
!! > E: Option DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite: Configuration item
!! > sepecification must have an =<val>.
!! >
!! > did i do somthing stupid? i'm not real familier with what the above
!! > does. was there an option there i was supposed to change?
!!
!! [Cc'd back to -user to correct myself, hope you don't mind]
!!
!! Sorry, I should have checked that before posting. I meant:
!!
!! apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install
!!
!! That passes --force-overwrite to all dpkg invocations, so that if a
!! package contains a file that's already in another package it will be
!! installed anyway and overwrite that file. It's not for general use,
but
!! handy in situations like this when a package is missing an appropriate
!! Replaces: header.
!!
!! Cheers,
!!
--
Forrest English
http://truffula.net/~forrest
"America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the
system, but too early to start shooting the bastards"
-Claire Wolfe
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