A forced installed did the trick.
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:30:37PM +0000, Martin wrote:
> > Earlier I tried to 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' my system (an
> > Ultra2 running 2.4.18 SMP) and I get an error pertaining to the newer
> > version of libc6 and gcc-3.0 (error listed below). I think someone
> > else mentioned this problem earlier, but couldn't find if a resolution
> > was reached. Thanks in advance.
> <snip>
> > Preparing to replace libc6-sparc64 2.2.5-11.5 (using
> > .../libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement libc6-sparc64 ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.2.5-11.8_sparc.deb (--unpack):
> > trying to overwrite `/lib/64', which is also in package gcc-3.0
> On my system (Debian Stable) /lib/64 is a symlink to '../lib64'. Having
> a look through the info packages it now seems to be owned by
> "libc6-sparc64" but before the update I think it was owned by several
> packages (I think gcc-3.0 libc6-sparc64 and libc6-sparc-64-dev).
>
> Forcing the install of the new packages seemed to fix the error messages
> and nothing else evil has happened so far ... :-)
>
> HTH
>
> Cheers,
> - Martin
>
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