On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:45:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am running potato and im doing upgrade quite often. Regularly I get this > kind of message when doing apt-get dist-upgrade: > > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.1.6 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb) > ... > Unpacking replacement dpkg ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-buildpackage.1.gz', which is > also in package dpkg-dev > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.4.1.8_i386.deb > E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) > > Of course I can solve the problem by manually installing the package with > --force-overwrite, but it is still annoying. How can I configure apt so that > it can resolve such issues itself? Or is it a bug in the package? > configuration on my system?
Yes, it's a bug in dpkg_1.4.1.8 it should conflict dpkg-dev < 1.4.1.8. Force --force-overwrite is always bad think. In this case you can install first dpkg-dev and then dpkg (without forcing). Mirek
