Upgrading my Sid system today all went fine until the new Mate-polkit
packages.
Now even apt-get -f install won't work.
root@frank-debian:/home/frank# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
mate-polkit-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mate-polkit-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
54 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/55.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 359 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 140927 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb ...
Unpacking mate-polkit-common (1.6.0-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite
'/etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1.desktop', which
is also in package mate-polkit:i386 1.6.0-1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mate-polkit-common_1.6.0-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@frank-debian:/home/frank#