Hi, You have to force installation overwriting files like that : dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb
Sincerely Olivier Le Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:09:44 +1000 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know it's not laptop specific but: > > when I attempt to do an upgrade of e2fsprogs I get this error: > > zeus:/# apt-get install e2fsprogs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 282 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/396kB of archives. After unpacking 213kB will be used. > (Reading database ... 76737 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.32-2 (using > .../e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/lib/libcom_err.so.2.1', which is also in package > libcomerr2 > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.33+1.34-WIP-2003.05.21-2_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Has anyone else encountered this or knows how I can get around it? > I was thinking about removing libcomerr2 but wasn't sure. > > cheers, > > Ben -- ____ _ _ ____ _ / ___|| |__ (_)_ __/ ___|| |_ ___ _ __ ___ \___ \| '_ \| | '_ \___ \| __/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \ ___) | | | | | |_) |__) | || (_) | | | | __/ |____/|_| |_|_| .__/____/ \__\___/|_| |_|\___| Olivier ROBERT|_| GnuPG Id : 590D78DE
