Re: kdelibs3

[Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au>]

Quoth Glenn Becker, 
> Hi, all,
> 
> I've been having some problems getting an upgrade to some of the new
> KDE packages, to wit ... kdelibs3. Have been getting the following
> error message upon trying to force things with 'apt-get -f install':
> 
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs3 
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19  not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/6758kB of archives. After unpacking 5603kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 160795 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.1.2-3 (using .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ...
> Replacing files in old package kdebase-libs ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png', which is also in package kdebase
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Any ideas how to get beyond this? I'm stumped. Have been removing KDE
> apps one by one, but nothing seems to clear the way.

Not pretty, but the following will work (but possibly break something
later on, for all I know...)

dpkg --install --force-overwrite \
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb

cheers,

damon

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