Re: Error installing libgimp2.0 on Debian unstable - SOLVED
On (04/04/04 23:24), Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > Jean-Sébastien Guay wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > When trying to upgrade my system today, I got this error when
> > installing libgimp2.0 (output from apt-get -f dist-install follows)
>
> This is already filed -- hopefully it will be fixed soon:
> http://bugs.debian.org/241587
>
> > > trying to overwrite
> > > `/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gimp20-libgimp.mo', which is also
> > > in package gimp-data
> >
> >
> > 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 Kevin
I've been sitting on a broken gimp for a few days - that fixed it ;)
Regards
Clive
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