heya I've just been trying to upgrade all my slink stuff to potato and dpkg has been complaining about a pile of files that it can't overwrite because they're "also in package <insert here>". It currently seems silly to me as to why a file present in two different packages simultaneously should completely prevent the package's intstallation so would someone be able to enlighten me as to why this is the case or what is actually happening here?
The offending packages were: bash_2.03-2_i386.deb gnome-bin_1.0.54-1_i386.deb gnome-admin_1.0.3-1_i386.deb gnome-session_1.0.54-2_i386.deb gnome-core_1.0.54-2_i386.deb Here is a sample output from dpkg: Preparing to replace gnome-core 0.30-2 (using gnome-core_1.0.54-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-core ... dpkg: error processing gnome-core_1.0.54-2_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/session-properties', which is also in package gnome-session from da Bobstopper
