Re: Problem upgrading to libc6 2.5-9 amd64

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 15:33:48 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:39:41 -0000, pedxing wrote:
> > On Jun 7, 9:50 am, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:04:54 -0000, pedxing wrote:
> > > > I ran into this problem when trying to do my weekly aptitude upgrade
> > > > on an AMD64 system running Lenny:
> > > > ----
> > > > Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 (using .../archives/
> > > > libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb) ...
> > > > Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> > > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb
> > > > (--unpack):
> > > >  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package gtk-qt-
> > > > engine

[...]

> I think you can eliminate the problem like this:
> 
> 1) Download the fixed version of gtk-qt-engine:
> 
>    wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-qt-engine/gtk-qt-engine_0.8~svn-rev36-2_amd64.deb
> 
> 2) Shut down X, go to a tty and become root. Then install the new
>    version that you just downloaded:
> 
>    dpkg -i gtk-qt-engine_0.8~svn-rev36-2_amd64.deb

I realized that this will not work because the new version of
gtk-qt-engine depends on the new version of libc6, which you cannot
currently install because of the file conflict with the old version of
gtk-qt-engine.

I am afraid you have to break this deadlock by force:

dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb

dpkg -i gtk-qt-engine_0.8~svn-rev36-2_amd64.deb

apt-get install -f

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