On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:04:28PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > since i upgraded libc6 and dpkg (from unstable) i've been having a lot of > problems with dpkg seg faulting trying to install stuff. currently i > tried to upgrade gnumeric and it bombs out on gnome-libs-data like this: > > (Reading database ... 44809 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace gnome-libs-data 1.2.8-helix1 (using > .../gnome-libs-data_1.2.12-1_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement gnome-libs-data ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.12-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying > to overwrite `/usr/share/idl/name-service.idl', which is also in package > libgnorba27 > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.12-1_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > the problem is that i can't upgrade anything else until this is fixed, and > i get this over and over again when i run "apt-get -f install" or try to > manually install the package with dpkg. > > i've had problems like this before and normally moving the problem file to > /tmp and re-installing works (eg. mv /usr/share/idl/name-service.idl /tmp) > to get my by ... but this time it doesn't. > > how do i get out of this?
Add the follwing to your /etc/apt/apt/conf:
DPkg::Options {"--force-overwrite";};
HTH,
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