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Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine



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.

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