Re: libxv1 breaks apt-get and so my Debian.
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> Unpacking libxv1 (from .../libxv1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb (-
> -unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0', which is also in package xli
> bs
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb
Well, the immediate solution to your problem is to use the
--force-overwrite option to dpkg, so that it will not error out when
libxv1 replaces a package in xlibs:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite \
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb
If you want to run sid, you should know about --force-overwrite anyway.
However...
> I am using knoppix 3.3, which I tried to upgrade to SID.
... the reason your bug is being ignored, I would guess, is that Debian
does not officially support "side-grades" from Knoppix to sid. Knoppix
is not Debian! If you think about it for five seconds, it should be
clear that Debian developers cannot reasonably be expected to know
enough about the vagaries of every .deb-based distribution to permit
"side-grading" from them to Debian without problems.
This is not to say that what you are trying to accomplish cannot be
done, but you should expect many problems similar to the above. If you
want to end up with Debian installed, and don't really care about
Knoppix, why not install from scratch using the new Sarge installer
instead? It is supposedly very easy (I say "supposedly" only because I
haven't tried it personally) and you will find the result much easier to
upgrade to sid. And any bugs you find while upgrading from sarge to sid
will actually be supported.
regards,
--
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