Re: apt-get -f install question..
Sorry for duplicating it. Did not see it on llist, so, here it is again.
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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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