Re: dpkg error, `aptitude safe-upgrade` leaves zsh unconfigured

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2013-06-09 10:10 +0200, John Magolske wrote:

> After an `aptitude safe-upgrade` I'm getting the following, which
> leaves zsh unconfigured. Any suggestions about how to untangle this?
>
> *
>
> % sudo aptitude install zsh
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   zsh-common{a}
> The following partially installed packages will be configured:
>   zsh zsh-doc
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 438 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B/2,964 kB of archives. After unpacking 10.4 MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
> Retrieving bug reports... Done
> Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
> (Reading database ... 267491 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking zsh-common (from .../zsh-common_5.0.2-3_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/zsh-common_5.0.2-3_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/etc/zsh/zshenv', which is also in package zsh 5.0.2-3

That looks like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709974.
Do you have the grml-etc-core package installed?

Cheers,
       Sven