On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Boris Boutillier wrote: <snip> > Does anyone know what to do when dpkg give such an output when > installing a package : > > dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/sbin/paperconfig.libc5' > with > different file `/usr/sbin/paperconfig', not allowed <snip> > > I don't know how to solve this problem. I just installed the patato and > had this problem. I think there should be an option but can't find which > one.
Well if you mean you want to overwrite you should take a look at: dpkg --force-help and what it says is, you can use this option to overwrite: dpkg --force-overwrite -i file.dpkg <snip>
