Re: xlibs 4.0.1-4 version wont install
Thanks. What finally worked for me was using the Dpkg option of
--force-overwrite to install xlibs 4.0.1-4.
Best regards,
Victor
Quoting Corey Popelier <pancreas@dingoblue.net.au>:
> 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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