...sorry, but the "better way" of fixing the upgrade problem is at the bottom of this message (from David). I was mistaken, and dpkg-dev was possibly _not_ unpacked to my system before I used the nasty fix of forcing the dpkg install here (although I did not notice any error message pertaining to dpkg-dev not being installed from apt dselect).
Art On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:51:42PM +0000, Art Lemasters wrote: > This appeared to be an overwrite issue to me, so I downloaded > dpkg_1.4.1.8.deb via netscape (found it through "packages" on the > debian www site) and did > dpkg --force-overwrite -i dpkg_1.4.1.8.deb > to install it. It worked, although there might be a better way > now (through apt, maybe?). And BTW, dpkg-dev was installed via > dselect apt here _before_ I had the dpkg archive misnomer and > overwrite problems. ...hope this helps all those of you upgrading > potato. :-) > > Art > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:29:05PM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SRA> I get this error on my potato i386: > > SRA> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb > > SRA> (--unpack): > > SRA> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz', > > which is > > SRA> also in package dpkg-dev > > > > Among the packages APT didn't install is the new dpkg-dev; if you run > > 'apt-get install dpkg-dev' and then proceed with the upgrade it works > > fine. > > > > dpkg should probably Conflicts: with dpkg-dev (<= 1.4.1.6). > > > > -- > > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ > > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > > -- Abra Mitchell > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null