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.