Bug#415646: sarge > etch dist-upgrade fails, x11-common fails overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Scott Raun <sraun@fireopal.org> writes:

> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme', which is also in 
> package xlibs-data

Running

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-5_all.deb

should let

apt-get -f install

continue (though xcursor-themes already declares appropriate versioned
Conflicts: and Replaces:, so that theoretically shouldn't have been
necessary).

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