Re: Help upgrade

[Alexander Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>]

* John Fleming <john@wa9als.com> [040819 19:00]:

> I have a Debian Unstable install that I'm trying to get up to date.

Please, if you use unstable read manpages, read the BTS and search the
listarchive of different lists.


> root@Luke:~# apt-get upgrade
[..]
> The following packages have been kept back:
[..]

man apt-get
Read about the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade. Read in the
list archive, especially about KDE 3.3.


> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.calc.desktop', which is
> also in package openoffice-de-en

I'm sure, you'll find something about that in the BTS and in the list
archive. If something like that happens again and you can't find it in
the BTS, get familar with the reportbug.

And if you are looking for right in time solution for this, look at the
manpage of dpkg, search for force, and you'll find the "dirty little
hack" which will solve this problem, till the maintainers fixe their
packages.


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander