On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:01:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:54:30 -0500, Stephen wrote: > > Good Day: > > > > Just attempted a security update for Sarge (PHP4-PEAR). > > > > I received the following (I'm using aptitude in CLI); > > > > (Reading database ... 47570 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace php4-pear 4:4.3.10-16 (using > > .../php4-pear_4%3a4.3.10-18_all.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement php4-pear ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/php4-pear_4%3a4.3.10-18_all.deb (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/pear', which is also in package php-pear > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/php4-pear_4%3a4.3.10-18_all.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > Any ideas on how to fix ? > > The root of the problem seems to be "php-pear". I cannot find it in the > Sarge repositories in my sources.list. Where did it come from? From Debian security. I run apt-cron and it informed me of the update, so naturally I wanted to 'dist-upgrade', hence the error. > You can try to remove php-pear and install php4-pear with dpkg: > > dpkg --force-depends --remove php-pear > dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/php4-pear_4:4.3.10-18_all.deb Hm OK, I guess no one else appears to be having the same problems, so it must be unique to my setup, somehow. Thanks, I'll try this and see what happens. > There might be more conflicts coming if you have other non-Sarge > packages installed. You might have to remove all those packages before > you can do the upgrade. The only non-Sarge repository I'm using, is the semi-official backports. Otherwise a vanilla Sarge. -- Regards Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. -- Samuel Johnson +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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