I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows: tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 28 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 118kB of archives. After unpacking 62.5kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main debconf 0.2.65 [118kB] Fetched 118kB in 26s (4489B/s) Configuring packages ... (Reading database ... 77408 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debconf ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package sudo with nondirectory Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) tsuess:~# I would also love to know how to fix this as it is preventing the other 28 packages I downloaded from completing the dist-upgrade.
Regards, Todd On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > Greetings everyone. I'm having a problem trying to install debconf. > I just did a full upgrade to potato this evening. I then tried to > install a new package (everybuddy) that relied on debconf. When > apt-get went to install debconf I got the error: > > HAL9000:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i debconf_0.2.65_all.deb > (Reading database ... 69770 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking debconf (from debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package libcurses-perl with > nondirectory > Errors were encountered while processing: > debconf_0.2.65_all.deb > > When I examined the .deb using mc I found that there is a shell script > called /usr/sbin - the header of which says that it reconfigures a > package by running the package's confmodule and then the postinst. > > Can anyone here let me know how to fix this? > -- > Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" > ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" > '91 GS500E | > Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null