error in installing new xlibs package on pentium
I get the following error,but the file complained about is a link. The
complete error follows:
# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28633 Nov 22 2000 XMcd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 7 13:12 app-defaults ->
/etc/X11/app-defaults
apt-get install --yes -s xlibs ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 659 not upgraded.
21 packages not fully installed or removed.
Inst xlibs (4.2.1-6 Debian:testing)
Conf xlibs (4.2.1-6 Debian:testing)
Conf libxft2 (2.1.1-2 Debian:testing)
Conf libpango1.0-0 (1.2.3-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libpango1.0-common (1.2.3-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libgtk2.0-0 (2.2.1-6 Debian:testing)
Conf libgtk2.0-common (2.2.1-6 Debian:testing)
Conf libgconf2-4 (2.2.1-1 Debian:testing)
Conf gconf2 (2.2.1-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libgnomevfs2-0 (2.2.5-2 Debian:testing)
Conf libgnomevfs2-common (2.2.5-2 Debian:testing)
Conf libgnome2-common (2.2.3-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libgnome2-0 (2.2.3-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libglade2-0 (2.0.1-3 Debian:testing)
Conf libgnomecanvas2-0 (2.2.1-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libbonoboui2-0 (2.2.2-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libbonoboui2-common (2.2.2-1 Debian:testing)
Conf libgnomeui-0 (2.2.0.1-2 Debian:testing)
Conf gksu (0.9.11 Debian:testing)
Conf firestarter (0.9.2-2 Debian:testing)
Conf libxrender1 (0.8.2-1 Debian:testing)
Conf xbase-clients (4.2.1-6 Debian:testing)
Conf xlibs-dev (4.2.1-6 Debian:testing)
RESULT=0
apt-get install --yes xlibs ;echo RESULT=$?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 659 not upgraded.
21 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1253kB of archives. After unpacking 86.0kB will be freed.
(Reading database ... 131995 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-16 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-6_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also
in package xmcd
Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults:
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jul 19 07:16 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 14 15:32 /usr/X11R6
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 7 13:12 /usr/X11R6/lib
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 7 13:12 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 7 13:12
/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
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
RESULT=100
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Dr Lester Clowney
AIST-NIBHT Structural Biology Centre
1-1 Higashi,
Tsukuba shi,
Ibaraki-ken 305-8566, Japan
email: les@nibh.go.jp
phone: +81-298-61-6540
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