Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not
On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Joey L wrote:
> serv:/usr/share/man/man1# apt-get upgrade tagcoll
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> libtagcoll-dev
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/3429kB of archives.
> After unpacking 1950kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> (Reading database ... 230141 files and directories currently
> installed.) Preparing to replace libtagcoll-dev 1.6.3-1 (using
> .../libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libtagcoll-dev ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/tagcoll.1.gz', which is
> also in package tagcoll
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Hi, Joey,
You can install the package with dpkg -i --force-overwrite ; you
may want to backup the other version first and examine the differences,
if any. I think that you have to give the full path and filename to
dpkg (/var/cache/apt/archives/something.deb).
-Chris
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