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Trying to upgrade bash on squeeze, running into errors



Hi all,

I've seen several posts about this Bash upgrade issue, but no real answers on how to get past it. Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you!


apt-get install bash
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  bash-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bash
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 106 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1273 kB of archives.
After this operation, 344 kB disk space will be freed.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  bash
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... 34001 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bash 4.1-3 (using .../bash_4.1-3+deb6u2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bash ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-3+deb6u2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/bin/sh', which is also in package dash 0.5.5.1-7.4
configured to not write apport reports
                                      update-alternatives: using /usr/share/man/man7/bash-builtins.7.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man7/builtins.7.gz (builtins.7.gz) in auto mode.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-3+deb6u2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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