RE: apt-get bug?
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> Then:
> (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on an undefined value at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line 151 during global
> destruction.
This is debconf being broken, I don't know what the fix is, maybe ask on
-user
> Unpacking asclock-themes (from .../asclock-themes_2.0.12-3_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/asclock-themes_2.0.12-3_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/asclock/shaped/config', which is also in
> package gnome-panel-data
And this is a packaging error which can be worked around by adding
something like
dpkg::options {"--force-overwrite";};
to /etc/apt/apt.conf (IIRC) Check the man pages, etc.
Jason
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