Re: xlibs error

[Mike Thompson <mthomp@pacificcoast.net>]

Hi Gareth,
	You need to create a directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
which must be an actual directory -- not a link.  Then run
dpkg --configure -a 

	The install will then give you an error message saying this
directory should be removed.  Don't do this yet.  I know this sounds
strange but the error is required by the install script.
Mike

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:32:03AM +0000, Gareth Bowker wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I've recently done a dist-upgrade which I haven't done since before
> XFree4.01 went into woody - I was getting the packages from branden's
> repository before then. However, I've come up against an error which I'm
> not sure how to resolve. Something broke on the upgrade and now whenever
> I do "apt-get upgrade" it fails and suggests I run "apt-get -f install".
> When I do this, I get the following text:
> 
> pctgb:~# apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   xlibs 
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 178 not
> upgraded.
> 10 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/1161kB of archives. After unpacking 4989kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> (Reading database ... 60850 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-0phase2v21 (using
> .../xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in
> package xpaint
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Any help resolving this would be great as apt refuses to work until I
> fix this.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Gareth
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