Installing alpine on a system which already has pine
Hello:
I'm trying to install alpine, the free successor to pine, but aptitude reports:
Unpacking alpine (from .../alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz', which is also in package pine
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.
I don't want to remove pine until I'm sure alpine is an appropriate replacement. I removed the offending file, but the error remains. Is there a way I can force alpine to be installed? I read the aptitude manual, but could find no way to override its refusal to install.
Patrick
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