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On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:40AM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> 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:
> 
> ------------ snip ---------------
> 
> 
>  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)

It's a bug in one or the other of the packages.
Please report it.

Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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