Re: can't install compiled kernel

["Donald D. Daniel" <donald.daniel@att.net>]

the --force-overwrite trick worked.  Thanks

Donald Daniel


Linus Gasser wrote:

> On Sunday 13 April 2003 01:07, Donald D. Daniel wrote:
>  
>
> > error processing kernel-image... (--install): trying to
> > overwrite '/boot/config-2.2.22', which is also in package
> > kernel-image-2.2.22-generic.
> >    
>
> This says that your package provides a file that is already there from another 
> package. So either do (or don't)
>
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite *.deb
>
> or, better
>
> dpkg -r kernel-image-2.2.22-generic
> dpkg -i *.deb
>
> Ineiti
>
>