Re: nis

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Marcin Inkielman wrote:

> 
> I am trying to install NIS under potato. I have the following result:
> 
> (Reading database ... 49955 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking nis (from .../archives/nis_3.6-2_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nis_3.6-2_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/bin/domainname', which is also in package hostname
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/nis_3.6-2_i386.deb
> 
> any hint, anybody?

dpkg -i --force overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/nis_3.6-2_i386.deb