On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:04:45PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
| I am still trying to upgrade from potato to woody. With a modem this is a
| panfull process at best. Here it is 4 days latter and now I cannot get
| anywhere with it. Here is the error message that I get.
|
| Moving old app-defaults file XmAddressBook to
| /etc/X11/app-defaults/XmAddressBook.xlibs-old.
| Moving old app-defaults file XRn to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XRn.xlibs-old.
| Moving old app-defaults file Atmidi to
| /etc/X11/app-defaults/Atmidi.xlibs-old.
| Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb
| (--unpack):
************
| trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/mouse.xpm', which is
| also in package qcad
************
| dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb
| Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| schserv:~#
|
| Please help.
I have highlighted the most significant message above. The problem is
the file that the new package is trying to install is also owned by
another package. It would be pretty nasty for packages to stomp on
each other's feet like that so dpkg stops and warns you instead. The
only solution that I know of is to remove one package (qcad) and
install the other (xlibs) then reinstall the first.
I have this same problem with a 3rd party package ('sos') putting it's
binary in /usr/X11/bin and then trying to upgrade xfree86-common.
Say ... I could fix that myself, couldn't I?
HTH,
-D
