On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Hank Marquardt wrote: > Maybe this is self evident to some, but I'm stuck ... I'm running unstable, I > hadn't upgraded in about a week -- then last night I did and there were 128 > packages to upgrade including most of KDE. After it fetched the archives it > chugged about half way though and then puked -- > > It indicates it needs to add an additional package 'kdelibs3' -- it fetches > it just fine but then dies like so: > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-2_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-designer.desktop', > which is also in package kdevelop > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-2_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I tried 'apt-get -f install' ... it chokes in the same place, I tried > 'apt-get remove kdevelop' as I only installed it to play with it -- > but remove complaines that there are unmet dependancies and suggests > running apt-get -f install --
I upgraded from potato to testing and then to sid a few days ago and had the same problem but with a different filename. I just did this: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.0-0beta1-1_i386.deb followed by this to fix and continue: apt-get -f install apt-get -u dist-upgrade When done, I set sources.list back to testing. I went to sid to get all of gnome 1.4. Risky, but then I drop back to testing from now on. Everything seems OK but I run gnome, not kde. ...RickM...