Quoth Glenn Becker, > Hi, all, > > I've been having some problems getting an upgrade to some of the new > KDE packages, to wit ... kdelibs3. Have been getting the following > error message upon trying to force things with 'apt-get -f install': > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > kdelibs3 > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/6758kB of archives. After unpacking 5603kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 160795 files and > directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.1.2-3 (using > .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... > Replacing files in old package kdebase-libs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/3floppy_mount.png', which is also in > package kdebase > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Any ideas how to get beyond this? I'm stumped. Have been removing KDE > apps one by one, but nothing seems to clear the way.
Not pretty, but the following will work (but possibly break something later on, for all I know...) dpkg --install --force-overwrite \ /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb cheers, damon -- Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne Homicide is, no matter what else it might be, a social relationship. -- Paul Bonnana
