Re: X 4 and app-defaults

["H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@quickfur.yi.org>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:40:23PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
[snip]
> Today's xlib package install fails, though, as follows:
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xxgdb
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[snip]

I encountered the same problem. Apparently, 4.0.1-2 is trying to make
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults a symlink, but other packages that use
this directory have it listed as a directory, so dpkg doesn't dare to
proceed with making the symlink.

Solution:
	dpkg --force-overwrite --configure xlibs


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