At 21:47 -0700 1998-04-12, Joey Hess wrote: >> dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install): >> trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> netscape4_4.0-7.deb > >I'm very confused by this, since I have netscape4 and rvplayer both >installed, with no problems. rvplayer.deb contains a /usr/lib/netscape/ >directory. So's netscape.deb. That's fine, no conflict, right? What'm I >missing?
I suspect it's the dpkg "directory overwrite" bug, sometimes for unknown reasons, dpkg will get confused and act as if a directory contained in one package can overwrite the same directory contained in another package. James Troup mentioned (on IRC) something like that when I had a similar conflict between apt and man2html (IIRC), both packages had /var/cache and dpkg refused to install apt because its /var/cache was "trying to overwrite /var/cache, which is also in package man2html". He suggested I try again with a certain -D argument to dpkg to try to nail the bug, I don't recall what the argument was. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]