# On top of all the other ways this report sucked, it didn't have a title. retitle 282769 libxv1: fails to install due to file overlap with unofficial (Knoppix) version of xlibs # This is not something we can or will do anything about. tag 282769 + wontfix # Erroneous bugs should have a severity of "normal", I suppose. severity 282769 normal thanks On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Package: libxv1 > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 > Severity: Important > > I am using knoppix 3.3, which I tried to upgrade to SID. > > However when the korganizer (vers 4:3.3.1-1) was going to be installed > the libxv1 pkg was needed. > (Reading database ... 154499 files and directories currently installed.) > 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 No official version of the xlibs package ever shipped "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0" in the xlibs package. It looks like you got bitten by an incompatiblity due to a Knoppix fork of the XFree86 packages. I suggest installing the libxv1 package in question with "dpkg -i --fore-overwrite". -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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