Re: kde 4.0.80 upgrade issue?

[allen <blowers@computer.org>]

I took the brute force approach and used dpkg --force-overwrite.  It worked.

Best Regards, Allen

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 16:04:37 allen wrote:
> I was running 4.0.2.  I started running the upgrade to 4.0.80 when I ran
> into an issue with kdebase-runtime-data-common.  The error message:
> E:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime-data-
common_4%3a4.0.80-2_all.deb:
> trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/desktop-directories/kde-development-translation.directory',
> which is also in package kdebase-workspace-data
>
> From the comments in the change log for that package I see: "Install
> desktop-directory files to kdebase-runtime-data-common (37 files)."
>
> Somehow I suspect that caused the issue I had since the error reports an
> attempt to overwrite some files in a 'desktop-directories' folder.
>
> This has left the kdebase-runtime-data-common package broken.  I am
> wondering what my best option is?
>
> Best Regards, Allen
>
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