Re: Help- desktop-base - dpkg-divert - mismatch on package when removing diversion of gnome-splash.png

["Hereon" <hereon1@fastmail.us>]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:49:05 +0200, "Florian Kulzer"
<florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> said:
> Hereon wrote:
> > dpkg-divert: mismatch on package when removing `diversion of
> > /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png
> > 
> > 
> > Hi - How can I fix this?
> 
> [...]
> 
> I think you could try to remove the problematic package with dpkg (as
> root):
> 
> dpkg -r desktop-base
> 
> If that works you can issue the "apt-get -f install" command again. I
> think apt might even notice that it has to reinstall the newer version
> of the desktop-base package to satisfy dependencies. If that is not the
> case do it yourself: "apt-get install desktop-base".
> 
> As far as I understand the problem with the diversions during upgrades,
> it has something to do with the fact that the post/pre-rm scripts which
> remove the created diversions are not (fully) run during an upgrade. I
> hope that explicitly removing the package with dpkg will run the
> post/pre-rm scripts and create a clean slate for the installation of the
> newer version.
> 
> If the dpkg command given above also fails, then you can try to be more
> insistent with the "force-all" option:
> 
> dpkg --force-all -r desktop-base

Thanks - dpkg -r, then apt-get -f install, got much further.  Way past
where it stopped before, so I think your suggestion fixed the problem. 
No errors were returned.  "dpkg -l desktop-base" showed it installed.  I
did "apt-get dist-upgrade", and it's continuing on right now.

Thanks! :)
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