Re: apt-get upgrade problem

[Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com>]

Rick Macdonald wrote:

> I upgraded from potato to testing and then to sid a few days ago and had
> the same problem but with a different filename. I just did this:
> 
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-1_i386.deb

This sort of thing happens to me every so often too, with one package or
another. --force-overwrite seems to be the solution. One can only hope
that the file that is conflicting is the same in both packages.

Craig