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Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore



On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 19:34, dave mallery wrote:
> gnome-core got good and stuck:
> 
>  apt-get install gnome-core
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192  not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1440kB of archives. After unpacking 2396kB will be freed.
> (Reading database ... 56800 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace gnome-core 1.4.0.6-1.ximian.2 (using 
> .../gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement gnome-core ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/omf/gnome-core/fdl-C.omf', which is also 
> in package gnome-help-data
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> and if i try to remove gnome-help-data, it fails likewise.
> 
> gnome is gone.
> 
> i am in sort of a double bind and removing any one is impossible.
> 
> at a full stop
> 
> dave

Does "apt-get install -f", then "apt-get install gnome-core" help?

Peter.
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Peter Whysall
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