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Re: Apt Broken Package Problems



Stefan O'Rear wrote:
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I was thinking of:
dpkg --remove libquantum-superpositions-perl
dpkg --remove libclass-multimethods-perl

since apt is stuck.
Remember - no apt = fix deps yourself.


As you may of gathered, I am kinda new. The packages you said were removed, but apt-get -f install still returns this:

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 298 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 ... 130746 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 libquantum-entanglement-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)

Any suggestions?

Ryan Waye



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