On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:24:40AM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi all, > > sometimes, when upgrading, I get this errors. My solution is, to install the > package manually with dpkg --force-overwrite to get it installed. Is there > another solution using apt ??? > > If it is, please let me know. > > This is what happens: > > ------------ snip --------------- > > > protheus1:/home/ullhan63# LANG=C apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > beryl-plugins > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/418kB of archives. > After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > (Reading database ... 255732 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace beryl-plugins 0.2.0+svn20070207-r3782+imudebian0 > (using .../beryl-plugins_0.2.0+svn20070217-r4120+imudebian0_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement beryl-plugins ... > dpkg: error > processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/beryl-plugins_0.2.0+svn20070217-r4120+imudebian0_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/beryl/libgroup.so', which is also in package > beryl-plugins-extra > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
It's a bug in one or the other of the packages. Please report it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

