Re: How do I unconfuse dpkg?

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> 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.
Thanks.  That worked.


I have never filed a bug report.  What is the bug here?

Paul