Re: Borked upgrade

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2013-12-29 10:18 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Sb, 28 dec 13, 16:34:30, Frank McCormick wrote:
> ...
>> >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)
>> 
>>    Fixed it..thanks to dpkg --force-overwrite
>
> You should probably report it.

That would have been my advice as well, but the mate-polkit package in
the archive does not contain the offending file.  Frank, where did you
get it from?

Cheers,
       Sven