Re: problems with dist-upgrade (libarts)

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> /home/mschz/ROOT> apt-get dist-upgrade

[SNIP]

> (Reading database ... 55855 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libartsflow-data (from .../libartsflow-data_1.1.0-1_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libartsflow-data_1.1.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mcop/Arts/Synth_ADD.mcopclass', which is also
> in package libarts1

Looks like you have two versions of libarts, one of which is being
replaced.

To me, I think you should have purged kde before you did the dist-upgrade:

apt-get remove --purge `dpkg -l | grep kde`

After you dist-upgrade do:

apt-get -f install

if you need to clear things up.

Good luck,

Fred Ollinger