RE: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable

[Jean-Sébastien Guay <jean_seb@videotron.ca>]

Hello Kevin,

Thanks for answering. I seem to be having a problem with the debian-user
list : I never saw my own message, nor the message from the other person
who said "rename this and do it again" (which I had already tried).
Luckily I saw yours...

> This is already filed -- hopefully it will be fixed soon: 
> http://bugs.debian.org/241587

Thanks for the pointer, I'll be sure to check there next time.

>  > Rename this and do it again.
> 
> This will not work, at least not efficiently; if I recall correctly 
> there were a large number of overlapping files in libgimp2.0 and 
> gimp-data packages.  The "correct" thing to do is install the package 
> with the --force-overwrite command to dpkg:
> 
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libgimp2.0*.deb

Thanks, this seems to have allowed me to install the package, and the
rest of my upgrade is going smoothly now.

Thanks again,

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