so am i but mine is with apache-common -- Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote: > I am getting almost exactly the same error, except mine is as follows: > > tsuess:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 28 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 118kB of archives. After unpacking 62.5kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main debconf 0.2.65 [118kB] > Fetched 118kB in 26s (4489B/s) > Configuring packages ... > (Reading database ... 77408 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace debconf 0.2.60 (using .../debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement debconf ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package sudo with nondirectory > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.65_all.deb > E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) > tsuess:~# > > I would also love to know how to fix this as it is preventing the other 28 > packages I downloaded from completing the dist-upgrade. > > Regards, > > Todd > > > > > > On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > > Greetings everyone. I'm having a problem trying to install debconf. > > I just did a full upgrade to potato this evening. I then tried to > > install a new package (everybuddy) that relied on debconf. When > > apt-get went to install debconf I got the error: > > > > HAL9000:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i debconf_0.2.65_all.deb > > (Reading database ... 69770 files and directories currently installed.) > > Unpacking debconf (from debconf_0.2.65_all.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing debconf_0.2.65_all.deb (--install): > > trying to overwrite directory `/usr/sbin' in package libcurses-perl with > > nondirectory > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > debconf_0.2.65_all.deb > > > > When I examined the .deb using mc I found that there is a shell script > > called /usr/sbin - the header of which says that it reconfigures a > > package by running the package's confmodule and then the postinst. > > > > Can anyone here let me know how to fix this? > > -- > > Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" > > ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" > > '91 GS500E | > > Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
