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["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi all,

sometimes, when upgrading, I get this errors. My solution is, to install the 
package manually with dpkg --force-overwrite to get it installed. Is there 
another solution using apt ???

If it is, please let me know.

This is what happens:

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 protheus1:/home/ullhan63# LANG=C apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  beryl-plugins
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/418kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 255732 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace beryl-plugins 0.2.0+svn20070207-r3782+imudebian0 
(using .../beryl-plugins_0.2.0+svn20070217-r4120+imudebian0_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement beryl-plugins ...
dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/beryl-plugins_0.2.0+svn20070217-r4120+imudebian0_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/beryl/libgroup.so', which is also in package 
beryl-plugins-extra
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/beryl-plugins_0.2.0+svn20070217-r4120+imudebian0_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
protheus1:/home/ullhan63#

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Thanks for your help.

Regards

Hans