Re: Problematic Acroread Install in Squeeze

[Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:14:29AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Jo, 19 mai 11, 18:07:44, Freeman wrote:
> ...
> >  18  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is
> >  also in
> >  19 /package adobereader-enu 9.3.2
> 
> Get rid of this package
> 
> > 121 root@Europa:/home/freeman# cd /usr/share/man/man1
> > 122 root@Europa:/usr/share/man/man1#  mv acroread.1.gz
> > acroread.1.gz.bak
> > 123 root@Europa:/usr/share/man/man1# stat acroread*
> > 124   File: acroread.1.gz.bak' ->
> > 125 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Shell/acroread.1.gz'
> > 126   Size: 47              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096
> > symbolic link
> > 127 Device: 807h/2055d      Inode: 10078       Links: 1
> > 128 Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/
> > root)
> > 129 Access: 2010-05-15 17:32:09.000000000 -0700
> > 130 Modify: 2010-05-15 17:32:09.000000000 -0700
> > 131 Change: 2011-05-19 17:27:38.000000000 -0700
> 
> (Re)moving the file is not enough, since dpkg has it's internal database 
> about what's installed where. Get rid of the package (using apt or 
> dpkg), not of the files.
> 

Thanks Andrei.

dpkg -P did it.

Looks like I got Adobereader-enu off of their site and forgot about it. 
Therefore, no conflict listed in the deb.

-- 
Regards,
Freeman

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