On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:57 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > 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. remove "pine" first. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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