On Jo, 19 mai 11, 18:07:44, Freeman wrote: > Wanted to try Acroread. > > The package acroread-debian-files would not install. There are no > dependency problems. > > I switched to apt-get at the prompt. > > About line 111 below I dpkg-configure says it can't overwrite a man file. > So I try to move that file in line 122 to no avail. ... > 18 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/acroread.1.gz', which is > also in > 19 /package adobereader-enu 9.3.2 Get rid of this package > 121 root@Europa:/home/freeman# cd /usr/share/man/man1 > 122 root@Europa:/usr/share/man/man1# mv acroread.1.gz > acroread.1.gz.bak > 123 root@Europa:/usr/share/man/man1# stat acroread* > 124 File: acroread.1.gz.bak' -> > 125 /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Resource/Shell/acroread.1.gz' > 126 Size: 47 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 > symbolic link > 127 Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 10078 Links: 1 > 128 Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ > root) > 129 Access: 2010-05-15 17:32:09.000000000 -0700 > 130 Modify: 2010-05-15 17:32:09.000000000 -0700 > 131 Change: 2011-05-19 17:27:38.000000000 -0700 (Re)moving the file is not enough, since dpkg has it's internal database about what's installed where. Get rid of the package (using apt or dpkg), not of the files. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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