Re: Problems to upgrade debianutils
moezzia@gmail.com wrote:
> 2007/4/13, Christian Christmann <plfriko@yahoo.de>:
>> I wanted to upgrade from Sarge to Etch.
>> During "aptitude dist-upgrade" I always get the
>> message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/
>> debianutils_2.17_i386.deb (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell', which is also in package passwd
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.17_i386.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
>
> Hi Christian. Bin kein Profi, aber versuchs mal mit :
> Zuerst passwd manuel entfernen mit dpkg:
>
> dpkg -r --force-all passwd
Vorsicht. Ich weiss nicht ob das schlimme Folgen hat. Aber prinzipiell
kann "--force-all" *extrem* üble haben, so schlimm dass hinterher
praktisch nichts mehr geht.
Gruß, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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