I'm new to Linux and even newer to Debian. I am running woody, and today (15th) I did an apt-get upgrade that's messed up Gnome. I was running Helix Gnome, although I did plan to remove it and go back to plain Gnome...whatever the update did today it seems to have replaced parts of Helix Gnome with newer standard Gnome components and completely messed up my dependancies. apt-get upgrade failed with the text pasted below:-
Unpacking oaf (from .../archives/oaf_0.6.5-5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/oaf_0.6.5-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/oafd', which is also in package liboaf0 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to replace gnome-panel-data 1.2.4-helix2 (using .../gnome-panel-data_1.4.0.2-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-panel-data ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-panel-data_1.4.0.2-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/gnome/help/panel', which is also in package gnome-help-data Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/oaf_0.6.5-5_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-panel-data_1.4.0.2-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I cannot apt-get -f install out of it as that fails with the same error. I thought I would remove helix completely and then reinstall gnome, but apt is telling me I do not have task-helix-gnome installed. I'm at a bit of a loss. Am I right to try and remove then re-install Gnome (I don't want Helix back) and if so, how can I do this. Any suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks....Simon. -- Simon Hooper GnuPG 1024D/F3D1353A 64AF 1419 4B67 CE13 E312 7C80 CFB0 9414 F3D1 353A
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