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Re: Installation of perl-base_5.6.1-2 fails



On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:04:09PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
>Installation of perl-base_5.6.1-2 and in consequence perl_5.6.1-2
>ungracefully fails on my debian/unstable system with the following
>error message:
>
>------------ snip ---------------
>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.6.1-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite directory `/usr/share/doc/perl' in package perl with nondirectory
>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.6.1-2_i386.deb

Fixed in 5.6.1-3 (incoming).

Regards,
-- 
Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited                  (NSW, Australia)  +61 2 9810 3633



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