On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:56:59PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > 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. > > 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. well, that's exactly what the force does -- it ignores the fact that pythonol claims to own that directory and goes ahead and lets x11-common overwrite it, which is surely a good thing in this case. There is a more fundamental issue here though: namely, where did pythonol come from if you don't recognise it. you should be looking at things like: dpkg -l python\* apt-cache search pythonol apt-cache show pythonol dpkg -L pythonol etc and see if you can figure that one out. A
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