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Re: How to fix apt/dpkg/dselect



On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote:

> [...]
> 
> Unpacking netstd...
> dpkg: error processing... netstd_3.07-7slink...
> trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/finger', which is also in package finger
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> ...netstd_3.07-7slink...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This means that the netstd which you or apt are trying to install contains
a file (/usr/bin/finger) which is also a part of an already *installed*
package (namely finger). Remove this one first (dpkg --remove finger) and
then countinue with apt-get -f install. That should at least fix that
specific problem

Martin

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