On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 08:24:00PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >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. > > Which version of libxft-dev do you have installed? I have 2.1.8.2-5.1 > and this version coexists peacefully with x11-common 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6. > There is a related bug, classified as "resolved": > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358308 > > Xorg seems to be a bit touchy at the moment, probably a side-effect of > the reorganization which was necessary for the modularized version 7.0 > (already in experimental). You might have to --force your way through > the upgrade. I went ahead and remove libxft-dev and got through my upgrade. we'll see what the ramifications of that are... thanks A > > Regards, > Florian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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