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Re: odd apt error



On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:12, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Would someone mind helping me with this?  I was doing an
> update/upgrade and it keeps dying with this error message:
>
> Unpacking libiec61883-0 (from .../libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb)
> ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libiec61883.so.0.0.0', which is also
> in package libiec61883
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> maybe there is a way to skip this file and let it upgrade the rest?

Use dpkg 
--force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb 
then dpkg --configure -a to get the unconfigured packages that may have 
been left over and proceed with the last update/upgrade you were doing.

Stephen
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