Re: overwriting files

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Regnat Nikolaus <nregnat@gmx.de> writes:

> I'm trying to create a package which replaces the black cursor from
> XFree86 with a white one. Unfortunately it is not possible to
> install a packge which overwrites files already installed by another
> package. I get the following message if I try to install my package:
> 
> --------------------
> Unpacking cursorsmall (from cursorsmall_1-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing cursorsmall_1-1_i386.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz', which is 
> also in package xfonts-base
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  cursorsmall_1-1_i386.deb
> --------------------
> 
> Is there a way to achive this?

Packages must not overwrite other packages' files. You can perhaps use
the "alternatives" mechanism. See update-alternatives(8).

        Falk