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Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install



I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove
groff + man-db and install them again afterwards because of xlibs. Perhaps
a force of some kind would work, I'm not overly concerned by bandwidth
hence I do it this way.

Cheers,
 Corey J. Popelier
 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas


On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Victor Torrico wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Upgraded  to the 4.0.1-4 upgrade of X today.  xlibs will not install.  
> 
> X Still works OK with 4.0.1-3 version of xlibs and the 4.0.1-4 versions of the
> other X packages.
> 
> Here is error message:
> 
> # apt-get install xlibs
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1101kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> (Reading database ... 67002 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-3 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package
> groff
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks - Victor
> 
> 
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