On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:23:32PM -0500, nathan_salwen@ncsu.edu wrote: > after editing the /etc/apt/sources.list I ran > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > and then got the following error > > > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-16 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package dialdcost > Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Mar 22 17:22 /usr > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul 26 2002 /usr/X11R6 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 17:24 /usr/X11R6/lib > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 22 17:24 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 22 17:24 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults > ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is not a symbolic link. The package > preinst script should have failed. > Please report the package name, version, and the text of the above error > message(s) to <debian-x@lists.debian.org>. > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > only after running > > dpkg -r dialdcost > did > > apt-get install xlibs > run ok. Future versions of the XFree86 package will help you better diagnose this sort of problem. Thanks for the report! -- G. Branden Robinson | The National Security Agency is Debian GNU/Linux | working on the Fourth Amendment branden@debian.org | thing. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Phil Lago, Deputy XD, CIA
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