Re: How do I unconfuse dpkg?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:09:37PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> How do I clean this up:?
>
> joy:/home/paul# apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> xlibmesa3-glu
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xlibmesa3-glu
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/259kB of archives. After unpacking 614kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 114776 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xlibmesa3-glu (from .../xlibmesa3-glu_4.2.1-6_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3-glu_4.2.1-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libGLU.so.1', which is also in package
> mesag3-glide2
File a bug report against xlibmesa3-glu asking for a Replaces: against
whatever version of mesag3-glide2 used to contain libGLU. In the
meantime you can use the --force-overwrite option to dpkg.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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