xlibs vs. app-defaults

[Burton Windle <burton@fint.org>]

Hello. I am having a prblem with the app-defaults directory on my woody
machine. For the longest time I used to get this mesg when installing
certain programs:

Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is a directory that should be a
symbolic link.  Packages containing files in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
need to move them to /etc/X11/app-defaults instead; they will not be used
by the X Window System until they are moved.

So I "fixed" the problem by making this:

toy:~# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov
25 22:38 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults -> /etc/X11/app-defaults

Now, however, I get this message:

Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-9_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in
package ghostview dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken
pipe)

It used to give a similar message because app-defaults was also in
xscreen-saver, and/or xscreen-saver-gl, untill I removed them and
reinstalled.  

What is the correct way to resolve this, and to stop getting these errors?

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Burton Windle				burton@fint.org
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