Thank you. This helped.
I've now been able to do
apt-get dist-upgrade
followed by
apt-get -f install
several times. Each time, it gets through a handful (20-30?) packages before
it bombs and I have to run the forced install.
I'm down to about a hundred packages left to install, and I got an error
message with libgnomeprint-bin:
knucklesucker:/home/jwl# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgnomeprint-bin
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 96 not
upgraded.
18 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/9840B of archives. After unpacking 256kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
debconf: (not preconfiguring packages since apt-utils is not installed)
(Reading database ... 82265 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libgnomeprint-bin 0.25-ximian.6 (using
.../libgnomeprint-bin_0.28-0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgnomeprint-bin ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-bin_0.28-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-font-install.1.gz',
which is
also in package libgnomeprint11
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-bin_0.28-0.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Now what? I used to have Ximian GNOME 1.4 installed, but I want to switch to
getting GNOME from woody.
Thanks,
Jim
Jimmy Richards Spoke Thusly:
> Hi,
>
> Just do this. It should work. It's worked for a number of people
> that I have helped with the same problem on IRC at irc.openprojects.net
> in #debian. If you visit there, come and say hi to me :-). My nick is
> longshot.
>
>
> cd /var/cahce/apt/archives
> dpkg -i libb2* libdb3*
>
> HTH and Good Luck,
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
>
> UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a
> genius to understand the simplicity. --Dennis Ritchie
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