I have just tried to update. The package is still in the repositories. Got the same problem:
pa...@pc-paolo:/$ sudo apt-get upgrade [sudo] password for paolo: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: ifupdown 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 58.1kB of archives. After this operation, 4,096B disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21.1 [58.1kB] Fetched 58.1kB in 0s (1,055kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 133711 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21 (using .../ifupdown_0.6.8ubuntu21.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ifupdown ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ifupdown_0.6.8ubuntu21.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 0:4.35ubuntu2 Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ifupdown_0.6.8ubuntu21.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- package ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 0:4.35ubuntu2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525667 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs