Re: Help - Apparent conflict between libmagic1 and file packages during upgrade to squeeze

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:11:00AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
[..]
> >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagic1_5.04-5_i386.deb
> >(--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/magic.mime', which is also in package
> >file 5.04-5
> 
> This shouldn't happen.  I have file_5.04-5 installed and it does not contain 
> /etc/magic.mime.  Sounds like it may be an architecture-specific oversight.  

Still on Lenny amd64:
root@fischer:~# dpkg -S /etc/magic.mime
file: /etc/magic.mime

root@fischer:~# apt-cache policy file
file:
  Installed: 4.26-1
  Candidate: 4.26-1

Yet:
http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=magic.mime
[..]
/etc/magic.mime                          libmagic1

So I'd just delete  "/etc/magic.mime" and try again, although it does
seem strange how this occurred.

> You might try downloading the libmagic1_5.04-5 .deb file and installing it 
> directly with dpkg.  There should be a specific --force-option to ignore file 
> conflicts.

Good advice.

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