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Re: Bug#59907: emacs19: Unable to update to latest release



On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:02:35PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > 	Unable to update to latest stable release -- typescript
> > of failure attached.

<failure snipped>

> I remember seing this at the slink release.  What is the proposed
> action now?

Just as a general note, I've now been able to get emacs to install
by removing exuberant-ctags. exuberant-ctags won't reinstall with
the following errors:

root@wildcat:~# apt-get install exuberant-ctags
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exuberant-ctags 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 36.2kB of archives. After unpacking 78.8kB will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org stable/main exuberant-ctags 1:2.3.2-1 [36.2kB]
Fetched 36.2kB in 21s (1688B/s)                                                
Selecting previously deselected package exuberant-ctags.
(Reading database ... 54883 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking exuberant-ctags (from .../exuberant-ctags_1%3a2.3.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/exuberant-ctags_1%3a2.3.2-1_i386.
deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man1/ctags.1.gz', which is also in package emacs1
9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/exuberant-ctags_1%3a2.3.2-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)


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