Re: SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:10:23 -0500 John Fleming wrote:
> > That said, if you are willing to take your chances, you can always try
> > 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/to/package.deb'.
>
> I can appreciate this may be an endless problem.
Not really. I've had my share of troubles with apt/dpkg, but I've
always been able to understand where the problem was, and deal with
it. Debian's package management is truly amazing in this respect.
> Now I have a similar
> problem trying to get rid of a frozen-bubble error, only this time the
> above command doesn't work like it did for the ntfsprogs files:
>
> ...
> Preparing to replace frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 (using
> .../frozen-bubble-data_1.0.0-6_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement frozen-bubble-data ...
> mv: cannot stat `/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav': No such file or directory
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> ...
>
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
man dpkg. This doesn't make sense here, because the problem is not a file
belonging to 2 different packages.
Once again, I don't recall a problem with my frozen-bubble upgrades...
Actually, there is no /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav file listed in the
frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 package. Very strange...
You could start by doing a 'touch /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav' and
see if that solves the problem.
Another option would be to try to completely uninstall (apt-get remove
--purge) frozen-bubble and frozen-bubble-data first, then install them
again...
HTH,
--
Carlos Sousa
http://vbc.dyndns.org/
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