Re: apt-get dist-upgrade errors

[JG <j2003gi@yahoo.es>]

Hi,

ben <debian-laptop@ausipos.com> writes:

> 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.

Install e2fsprogs 1.34+1.35-WIP-2003.08.21-3 from unstable.

Regards,

Jaume

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