apt-get -f install question..
After trying to install scm (scheme interpreter) failure, apt-get
suggested to try 'apt-get -f install' but this also resulted in error
(message shown below). Is there a way out?
-ishwar
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apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxt6
The following packages will be upgraded:
libxt6
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 699 not upgraded.
61 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/312kB of archives.
After unpacking 61.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 113233 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 (using .../libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libxt6 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xnview
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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