On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 at 10:17pm, Colin Watson wrote: :On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:40:39AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :> I decided to go to 'testing', so edited my sources.list, did 'apt-get :> update', 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which, after installing lots of packages, :> bailed with the following error: :> :> Errors were encountered while processing: :> /var/cache/apt/archives/gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb :> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) : :There will (should) have been a more specific error before that. We need :to see it.
OK - when I re-run apt-get dist-upgrade, I get this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libgsl0 libgtk-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libmpich1.0 libnet-smtp-server-perl libpango-common libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common mpich-common snd-gtk spamc tcl8.4-dev The following packages have been kept back fetchmail libgnome-dev 129 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 321 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 68.0kB/65.5MB of archives. After unpacking 18.9MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Note all the packages not fully installed or removed; then, when I proceed, here are messages referring to the package which seems to be causing the problem: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 89637 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gdk-imlib-dev 1.9.14-2 (using .../gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gdk-imlib-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/imlib-config', which is also in package imlib-base Then a bunch of Unpacking and Selecting ... then Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Is something happening in the wrong order? Thanks for the assistance, and the reassurance that my system's not too badly hosed! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
