On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:12, Preston Boyington wrote: > Would someone mind helping me with this? I was doing an > update/upgrade and it keeps dying with this error message: > > Unpacking libiec61883-0 (from .../libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb) > ... dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libiec61883.so.0.0.0', which is also > in package libiec61883 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > maybe there is a way to skip this file and let it upgrade the rest?
Use dpkg --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb then dpkg --configure -a to get the unconfigured packages that may have been left over and proceed with the last update/upgrade you were doing. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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