On 12/29/2013 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > * What led up to the situation? > > Updating via apt-get > > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > dpkg error
That happens when trying to update the package when using the MATE Debian repository at the same time and is hard to avoid since the MATE repositories contain "mate-polkit" while Debian has split the package into "mate-polkit" and "mate-polkit-common". We could maybe add a "Breaks" here, but mixing different repositories is problematic anyways. As a hotfix, you can run: apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -f install which will allow mate-polkit-common to overwrite files from the existing mate-polkit package installed through MATE's Debian repository. Cheers, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org