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 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3-glu_4.2.1-6_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) That's a bug in on of mesag3-glide2 or xlibmesa3-glu, they shouldn't contain the same file. Check the BTS to see if someone has reported it or not yet. You can force dpkg to install it anyway, thusly: $ dpkg -i --force-overwrite file.deb where file.deb is the package you want to force in. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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