Bug#237509: libxft-dev: upgrade to 2.1.2-6 fails

[Christian Guggenberger <Christian.Guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:15:23PM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Package: libxft-dev
> Version: 2.1.2-5
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #237509
> 
> I get a similar/same problem:
> 
> 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)
> 
> I assume your advice of "install manually with dpkg" still holds.  But 
> how do you do that?  When I run "dpkg -i <file>" on the file (in 
> /var/spool/apt/archives/) it gives the same error.
> 

in the meantime, do a:

$ apt-get -f install
$ dpkg -r --force-depends libxft-dev
$ apt-get -f install

and probably a:
$ apt-get install libxft-dev

 - Christian