Thus spake Damon Muller: > Quoth Glenn Becker, > > Hi, all, > > > > I've been having some problems getting an upgrade to some of the new > > KDE packages, to wit ... kdelibs3. Have been getting the following > > error message upon trying to force things with 'apt-get -f install': > > > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > Correcting dependencies... Done > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > kdelibs3 > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. > > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > > Need to get 0B/6758kB of archives. After unpacking 5603kB will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 160795 files and > > directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.1.2-3 (using > > .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... > > Replacing files in old package kdebase-libs ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite > > `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png', which is also > > in package kdebase > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > Any ideas how to get beyond this? I'm stumped. Have been removing KDE > > apps one by one, but nothing seems to clear the way. > > Not pretty, but the following will work (but possibly break something > later on, for all I know...) > > dpkg --install --force-overwrite \ > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb > > cheers, > > damon
This has apparently already been reported as a bug. You can (it
appears) use the above method safely, as the only thing it appears to
overwrite is the icon files. This is apparently part of the transition
to kde 2.2, and you can either go ahead like this now, or wait until
things get a little better sorted and do it cleanly.
Good luck,
Steve
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