On May 7, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Anthony & Ashwina Mosakowski wrote:

Tried update-all after doing a self-update. Update failed on system-tetex which is needed by lilypond the main package I have installed. I tried updating system-tetex on its own but got the same error which I've pasted below. How do I fix this?


<snip>
WARNING: If you are upgrading system-tetex, you may need to remove other
TeX-related packages. After the upgrade, you can reinstall those packages.
Affected packages include: foiltex, ifmslide, latex2html, lilypond,
lyx, pdfscreen, pdfslide, ppower4, tex4ht, texpower.

Unpacking replacement system-tetex ...
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/system-tetex_20010808-13_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/sw/etc/texmf.local', which is also in package lilypond-unstable
Errors were encountered while processing:

/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/system-tetex_20010808-13_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package system-tetex-20010808-13


Umm... the message tells you specifically that you need to remove lilypond to upgrade system-tetex. Remove it, upgrade system tetex, then reinstall lilypond.

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Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documentarian
Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment
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