Michael Marsh wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is one dpkg failed to recover from; just the relevant lines of the
script file follow:
Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21.
Unpacking libdjvulibre21 (from .../libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/djvu/osi/cs/messages.xml', which is also in
package libdjvulibre15
If you've gotten to that point, presumably you have partially updated
packages that depend on those (such as evince). What worked for me
was to do a
$ dpkg -r libdjvulibre15
followed by a normal run of aptitude. Removing the old library
doesn't cause evince to be removed, because the new version is already
there, just broken.
YMMV.
Really? I would have done this:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.deb
which ignores the fact that another file also wants to "own" that
/usr/share/djvu/osi/cs/messages.xml
However, I see your reasoning. Assuming that libdjvulibre15 is NOT needed
since you are updating to libjvulibre21.
However, if anything is deping on libdjvulibre15, you just un-installed it.
I only posted this for the benefit of anybody who wants to "know" how to get
dpkg to handle such things.
You (the person who thinks this is a cool option) might want to read dpkg --force-help
to find out all the things you can "force" and all the breakage that can happen.
After having warned you, I have never caused breakage from using this option
and a few others as needed.
You mostly need this command switch (dpkg --force-option) if you run into
issues doing a dist-upgrade and dpkg gets stuck
Note to Ron Johnson: is this happening a lot? I did not see any posts on this.
HTH
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