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

[John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>]

* Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> [130609 06:12]:
> 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
> >   [...]
> > 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?

Yes, that was indeed the problem. An `aptitude remove grml-etc-core`
fixed things, removing various grml-related packages and zsh in the
process. After this I was able to successfully re-install zsh. I'd
originally installed Debian on this machine via grml2hd, which is no
longer supported.

Thanks for the quick & helpful reply!

John

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