Re: trying to do an upgrade to my debian etch system

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Monday 24 September 2007 13:19, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:06:16PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> > I am trying to do an upgrade to my debian etch system and get the
> > following error message. What should I do about it. (i did an update just
> > before the upgrade attempt.)
> >
> >
> > Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
> > dpkg: error
> > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-19_i386.deb
> > (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package pythonol
>
> it looks like pythonol is a spanish language learning tool written in
> python, but its not in the debian repositories. Where did it come from
> and why the heck does it muck around in /usr/X11R6/bin? It definitely
> shouldn't do that, but being outside of standard debian, who
> knows. You can force it with
>
> dpkg --force-overwrite <package>
>
> but be forewarned that forcing anything is bad and you should try to
> find what's going on with pythonol.
>
> A


is there any way to have the update ignore pythonol? i don't recognize it. and 
def'ly don't want to do a force.

tom