Re: Broken libxft-dev package
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 18:50, Aaron Turner wrote:
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> Running testing/unstable and recently did a apt-get update/upgrade.
> Updated a whole bunch of X packages. However the libxft-dev (2.1.2-6)
> package won't install:
>
> vodka:~# apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libxft-dev
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> libxft-dev
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded
> Need to get 0B/60.2kB of archives.
> After unpacking 4096B disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 105242 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
> diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
> Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with
> different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
see #237509 et.al.
$ rm /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h
and then try the upgrade again.
- christian
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