On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:43:07PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of
> Elimar Riesebieter told:
>
> > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 the mental interface of
> > float@lefant.net told:
> >
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > > trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 dpkg returns the
> > > following error message:
> > >
> > >
> > > ---snip----
> > > Unpacking replacement xfree86-common ...
> > > dpkg: error processing
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-7_all.deb (--unpack):
> > > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11', which is also in package t1-cyrillic
> > > System startup links for /etc/init.d/xfree86-common already exist.
> > > Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done.
> > > Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done.
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-7_all.deb
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > > ---snap----
> > >
> > > i don't really understand what the message tries to tell me.
> > >
> > > any hints what to do.
> > echo force-overwrite > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
> If /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg already exists:
> echo force-overwrite >> /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
>
thx, now no more error
ffpx
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