Will do,
I ended up removing a mesa-common-dev using dpkg in the end, which at
least allowed the upgrade to complete.
Overall very impressed - my sarge system was pretty messy with various
backports and packages from other sources and that was the only
problem I encountered.
Thanks
Jeremy
On 8/21/06, Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de> wrote:
> * Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> > > Unpacking mesa-common-dev (from .../mesa-common-dev_6.4.2-1_all.deb) ...
> > > dpkg: error processing
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/mesa-common-dev_6.4.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/include/GL/osmesa.h', which is also in
> > > package xlibosmesa-dev
> >
> > The above error is the key here. The new package (mesa-common-dev) is
> > attempting to provide a file that is already provided by an existing
> > package (xlibosmesa-dev). Try the following to force the system past this:
> >
> > dpkg --force-overwrite -i \
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/mesa-common-dev_6.4.2-1_all.deb
>
> And please file a bug against mesa-common-dev from etch, it should
> replace xlibosmesa-dev via the control file.
>
> Norbert
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