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Re: CUPS Update failed



On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:47:59AM -0800, debian_newbie wrote:
> I am running Woody. I was trying to update CUPS by using Synaptic when I
> got this message:
> 
> 
> (Reading database ... 93315 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Preparing to replace cupsys 1.1.14-3 (using
> .../cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb) ...
> Stopping CUPSys: cupsd.
> Unpacking replacement cupsys ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in package
> cupsys-client
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Starting CUPSys: cupsd.
> 
> Update failed - Scroll in this buffer to see what went wrong
> 
> 
> 
> That was all it said, nothing else. What do I need to do?

# dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb 

See man dpkg.

-- 
Jerome

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