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Re: x11-common upgarde error



On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error.
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Calculating upgrade...Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   x11-common
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1124kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 80197 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace x11-common 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (using
> .../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/include/X11', which is also in package libxft-dev
>  System startup links for /etc/init.d/x11-common already exist.
> Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done.
> Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> How to get out of this error. I did apt-get -f install. that also didn't help.

What happened with this? I just saw it today (been awhile since an
upgrade) and now I'm stuck.

A

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