Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

[Stefan O'Rear <stefanor@cox.net>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote:
> I am using Sid 2.6.7 and I seem to be having some broken package
> problems.  The funny thing is that this is a week old, and noone else
> seems to have submitted a bug report.  This has completely handicapped
> apt, so I can not use it right now.  Below is the return of apt-get
> install -f
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> kdelibs-bin perl-base
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> kdelibs-bin perl-base
> 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 299 not upgraded.
> 7 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/1617kB of archives.
> After unpacking 254kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 130760 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Preparing to replace perl-base 5.8.4-2 (using
> ..../perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement perl-base ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl/5.8', which is also in package
> libclass-multimethods-perl
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Is it a broken package, or somthing else?

Does removing/purging libclass-multimethods-perl help?

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