I've just tried installing the j2sdk1.4 and j2re1.4 packages from a blackdown mirror and got the following conflict with 1.3 which is already installed.
Anyone else had this error and fixed it?
I don't want to remove j2sdk1.3 as it removes a load of other packages.
# apt-get install j2sdk1.4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: j2re1.4 The following NEW packages will be installed: j2re1.4 j2sdk1.4 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 23.5MB of archives. After unpacking 60.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://www.mirror.ac.uk unstable/non-free j2re1.4 1.4.0.99beta-1 [21.4MB] Get:2 http://www.mirror.ac.uk unstable/non-free j2sdk1.4 1.4.0.99beta-1 [2060kB] Fetched 23.5MB in 6m36s (59.3kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package j2re1.4. (Reading database ... 44461 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking j2re1.4 (from .../j2re1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb) ... Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] yes dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/j2re1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/JavaPluginControlPanel.1.gz', which is also in package j2re1.3 Selecting previously deselected package j2sdk1.4. Unpacking j2sdk1.4 (from .../j2sdk1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb) ... Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no] yes dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/j2sdk1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/HtmlConverter.1.gz', which is also in package j2sdk1.3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/j2re1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/j2sdk1.4_1.4.0.99beta-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
TIA
Dave
