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tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems




thneed:~# apt-get -f  install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306  not upgraded.
5 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2727kB of archives. After unpacking 2145kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 31064 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using
.../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also in package netbase
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

and i don't belive i want to remove that file...  or especially remove the
package netbase.    i'm open to suggestions.  cause it sucks having apt
broken.

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