Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com>]

Ryan Waye <rmw998@comcast.net> writes:

> 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
[snip]
>
> Any suggestions?

Read carefully the error reported by apt: It fails on another
libquantum-* package (libquantum-entanglement-perl instead of
libquantum-superpositions-perl). Looks like libquantum-*-perl
packages are badly packaged.

So remove all libquantum-* package with dpkg until apt is happy.

HTH

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Dominique Dumont 
"Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they
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