Re: problem updating to potato
I had the same problem. Try removing the "clock"
package first. Works fine after that.
--Erik
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> When trying to update to potato I get the following error:
>
> (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking util-linux (from .../util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh', which is also in package
> clock
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10d-5_sparc.deb
> E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall
> again
> Press enter to continue.
>
>
> This is part of util-linux... so I am very wary of rebooting, I have no
> idea how this will affect the system. Any ideas on how to fix it?
>
> -Aaron Solochek
> leko@cmu.edu
>
>
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