Re: Serious problems
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, George A. Dowding wrote:
> That fixed the gdm problem, thanks.
:-)
> Next issue: What is the right way to fix this? This is the only error
> I am getting during my daily updates. Yes woody
>
> Preparing to replace gnome-admin 1.0.3-2 (using .../gnome-admin_1.0.3-2_alpha.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement gnome-admin ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-admin_1.0.3-2_alpha.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/logview/logview-actions.db', which is also in package gnome-utils
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-admin_1.0.3-2_alpha.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
> Press enter to continue.
Try this:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite \
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-admin_1.0.3-2_alpha.deb
It'll work, but the conflict should probably be reported as a bug (unless
there's a newer gnome-utils that you're also fetching to upgrade to).
C
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