----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Sousa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:36 PM Subject: Re: SOLVED - Re: Safely Upgrading Packages
> > Please don't email me directly, I'm subscribed to the list. I hope you > don't mind me taking this back to the list, since others could provide > better advice, or profit by our exchange. > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:10:23 -0500 John Fleming wrote: > > > That said, if you are willing to take your chances, you can always try > > > 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /path/to/package.deb'. > > > > I can appreciate this may be an endless problem. > > Not really. I've had my share of troubles with apt/dpkg, but I've > always been able to understand where the problem was, and deal with > it. Debian's package management is truly amazing in this respect. > > > Now I have a similar > > problem trying to get rid of a frozen-bubble error, only this time the > > above command doesn't work like it did for the ntfsprogs files: > > > > ... > > Preparing to replace frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 (using > > .../frozen-bubble-data_1.0.0-6_all.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement frozen-bubble-data ... > > mv: cannot stat `/usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav': No such file or directory > > dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > ... > > > > dpkg -i --force-overwrite > > man dpkg. This doesn't make sense here, because the problem is not a file > belonging to 2 different packages. I see that in retrospect, and this problem ended up easier to fix. > > Once again, I don't recall a problem with my frozen-bubble upgrades... > Actually, there is no /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav file listed in the > frozen-bubble-data 1.0.0-4 package. Very strange... > > You could start by doing a 'touch /usr/games/frozen-bubble.wav' and > see if that solves the problem. That's exactly what I ended up doing last night prior to seeing this email this morning, and that did solve it! The error was saying that wav file didn't exist, so I just created one. At this point, all my dist-upgrade problems are gone. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
