Re: apt-get dist-upgrade errors
Hi,
You have to force installation overwriting files like that :
dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb
Sincerely
Olivier
Le Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:09:44 +1000
ben <debian-laptop@ausipos.com> wrote:
> I know it's not laptop specific but:
>
> when I attempt to do an upgrade of e2fsprogs I get this error:
>
> zeus:/# apt-get install e2fsprogs
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 282 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/396kB of archives. After unpacking 213kB will be used.
> (Reading database ... 76737 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.32-2 (using
> .../e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/lib/libcom_err.so.2.1', which is also in package
> libcomerr2
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Has anyone else encountered this or knows how I can get around it?
> I was thinking about removing libcomerr2 but wasn't sure.
>
> cheers,
>
> Ben
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