didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. is there a way to disasociate that file with netbase?
thneed:~# apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2727kB of archives. After unpacking 2145kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 31064 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using ../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also in package netbase dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:36:01 +0100, Colin Watson whispered to the router: !!On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 11:32:55 -0700, Forrest English wrote: !! > thneed:/usr/bin# apt-get -o DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite -f install !! > E: Option DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite: Configuration item !! > sepecification must have an =<val>. !! > !! > did i do somthing stupid? i'm not real familier with what the above !! > does. was there an option there i was supposed to change? !! !! [Cc'd back to -user to correct myself, hope you don't mind] !! !! Sorry, I should have checked that before posting. I meant: !! !! apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install !! !! That passes --force-overwrite to all dpkg invocations, so that if a !! package contains a file that's already in another package it will be !! installed anyway and overwrite that file. It's not for general use, but !! handy in situations like this when a package is missing an appropriate !! Replaces: header. !! !! Cheers, !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest "America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards" -Claire Wolfe
