Re: error installing debconf

[Todd Suess <tsuess@tsuess.evcom.net>]

I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows:

tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
28 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 118kB of archives. After unpacking 62.5kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main debconf 0.2.65 [118kB]
Fetched 118kB in 26s (4489B/s)
Configuring packages ...
(Reading database ... 77408 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package sudo with nondirectory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
tsuess:~#
         
I would also love to know how to fix this as it is preventing the other 28
packages I downloaded from completing the dist-upgrade.

Regards,

Todd





On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
> Greetings everyone.  I'm having a problem trying to install debconf.
> I just did a full upgrade to potato this evening.  I then tried to
> install a new package (everybuddy) that relied on debconf.  When
> apt-get went to install debconf I got the error:
> 
> HAL9000:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> (Reading database ... 69770 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking debconf (from debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package libcurses-perl with nondirectory
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   debconf_0.2.65_all.deb
> 
> When I examined the .deb using mc I found that there is a shell script
> called /usr/sbin - the header of which says that it reconfigures a
> package by running the package's confmodule and then the postinst.
> 
> Can anyone here let me know how to fix this?
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