Re: kopete: fails to unpack, trying to overwrite x-icq.desktop

[Sebastian Slania <slania@web.de>]

Hi,

you were right. I checked again and I found the following line in
sources:

# source for sim instant messenger 
deb http://debian.thermoman.de sid sim

I commented it out. Now everything is fine again.

Sorry I have overlooked this.

Sebastian



> > Subject: kopete: fails to unpack, trying to overwrite x-icq.desktop
> > Package: kopete
> > Version: 4:3.3.2-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Unpacking kopete (from .../kopete_4%3a3.3.2-1_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/kopete_4%3a3.3.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-icq.desktop',
> >  which is also in package sim
> 
> sim is orphaned and has been removed from Testing. Kopete also has a 
> Replaces: sim (<= 0.9.3-2) on it, which should be sufficient to overwrite 
> sim. I just tested it, and it does work. Are you using an unofficial sim 
> package?