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Re: apt-get problem



On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:37:11PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> I am setting up a new box and I had woody and KDE installed from a CD I 
> got several months ago.  I was installing some more stuff and somehow 
> ended up with the error output below.  A step that occurred before this 
> was to start an upgrade from both woody and sid without a preferences 
> file.  I aborted this in the middle of the download.  I have tried many 
> things to get back to normal and there are probably more things I need 
> to know about APT to get out of this.
> 
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3-bin_4%3a2.2.2-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dcop', which is also in package kdelibs3

It's a bug in the KDE packages. Try 'dpkg --force-overwrite --install
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4:2.2.2-13_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3-bin_4:2.2.2-13_i386.deb' as a
workaround, then continue the apt run.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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