Am 03. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Rick Macdonald so: > 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)
Submit a bug against kdelibs3 because it shouldn't try to own a file owned by another package. If it now has ownership, then kdevelop should drop it and kdelibs3 should Conflicts with versions of kdevelop prior to it giving up the file. > > 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 -- Yeah, one of those catch 22s we get sometimes :(. There are getting to be less and less of them, though :). > 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 I started replying to this email to say something against this. It hits the same nerve as --no-deps in RPMland. I see, however, that I was, in this instance, mistaken. You're only allowing it to overwrite that particular file, not dropping all dependencies. I would still suggest, however, to make a copy of the original file before allowing the overwrite just in case you determine that might be the one you need :). > 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. Look at the stuff I've posted recently about /etc/apt/preferences. I'm still experimenting with it in the hopes that I understand it before writing docs. Those should be forthcoming soon, though. ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Motorraeder toeten nicht. Motorraeder werden getoetet.