On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:13:20AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >Hi Kamaraju and Paul, > >If its a console program, I'd try 'alien' to convert the package and > >install it. What's the worst that can happen? > >-Kev > > > > > I got the rpm from > http://rpmfind.rediris.es/rpm2html/fedora-os-i386/expect-5.39.0-93.i386.html > and did a alien --to-deb > > Now If I install this deb file, I am getting the following error, Could > someone tell me what to do. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/software/expect$ sudo dpkg --install > expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package expect. > (Reading database ... 127351 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking expect (from expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/mkpasswd.1.gz', which is also > in package whois > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > expect_5.39.0-94_i386.deb > > regards > raju Hi Raju, The simple answer is 'dpkg --install --force-overwrite'. BUT BUT BUT 1) you should install the debian version of expect UNLESS you are a debian guru. 2) I was responding to a request to install a program that was NOT available as a DEBIAN package.
So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a debian package? If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it. -Kevin
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