[debian-knoppix] Problem with attempt to correct dependencies
Today I ran apt-get update/upgrade for the first time.
After getting assorted other programs installed, I tried to install the
KScreensaver via apt-get install. Seemed pretty straightforward but
there seems to be a problem with dpkg. After trying apt-get install
dpkg, I was told that I have the most current package but that as there
was a dependency problem, that problem was taken care of, (see below).
However, whehn it tried to install the below (apparently needed for
kscreensaver), the following error occured. I am very new to all of
this, and I really have no clue what the error is trying to tell me,
aside from that it seems to be wanting to install libxcursor-dev (extra)
while downloading the same file again - thus writing over itself when it
tries to install. I would appreciate any thoughts about how this can be
fixed.
I am not so sure what libxcursor-dev IS, so am not sure if I can
uninstall it via apt and then redownload it after a restart.
Thoughts????
Catherine
# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxcursor-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libxcursor-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 207 not upgraded.
20 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/27.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 135kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 115412 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libxcursor-dev (from .../libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb
( --unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xcursor/Xcursor.h', which
is also i n package xlibs-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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