Re: apt issues with gcc?
Hi Peter,
You don't show doing apt-get update, but I assume you do before doing
anything else.
On Sunday, 29 Aug 2004 07:59, Peter wrote:
> spider:~# apt-get clean
> spider:~# apt-get install gcc
<snip>
> (Reading database ... 51758 files and directories currently
> installed.) Unpacking gcc-3.3 (from
> .../gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gcc-3.3_1%3a3.3.4-6sarge1.1_i386.deb
> (--unpack): trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/doc/gcc-3.3-base/changelog.Debian.gz', which is also in
> package gcc-3.3-base
So the The GNU C compiler package is trying to overwrite the changelog
documentation of the GNU Compiler Collection base package.
Had you gone to http://bugs.debian.org and searched for gcc-3.3, you
would have found that this bug is reported no less than twelve (12)
times:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268338
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268473
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268577
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268581
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268629
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268641
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268644
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268645
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268647
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268653
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268700
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268769
There is also a workaround mentioned in several of the reports. Note
that it is generally inadvisable to run testing -- and certainly a
mixture of distributions -- unless you know how to use the tools
available to you for troubleshooting. You may wish to ensure that you
do not get packages from Etch once it replaces Sarge.
--
Alex Nordstrom
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