It's Debian bug #270346. The workaround is to put a "hold" on the old version of xfree86-common until the bug in t1-cyrillic is fixed. That's why they call it "unstable." :)
Frank On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:45:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hello list, > > trying to upgrade xfree86-common to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 dpkg returns the > following error message: > > > ---snip---- > Unpacking replacement xfree86-common ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-7_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11', which is also in package t1-cyrillic > System startup links for /etc/init.d/xfree86-common already exist. > Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done. > Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done. > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-7_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ---snap---- > > i don't really understand what the message tries to tell me. > > any hints what to do. > > removing t1-cyrillic solves the problem but is not an option for me, btw > t1-cyrillic is version: 4.5 > > cheers float > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > _ | .''`.Florian Klinglmueller > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) | : :' :debian-ppc user > - against HTML email X | `. `'` > & vCards / \ | `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Frank Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
