[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # aptitude > <try to delete fastforward and install sendmail-bin simultaneously> > (Reading database ... 46737 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking sendmail-bin (from .../sendmail-bin_8.13.6-1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sendmail-bin_8.13.6-1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/newaliases', which is also in package > fastforward > abort-install of sendmail-bin
>From this error, it looks like sendmail-bin and fastforward packages include the same file /usr/sbin/newaliases. The best way to fix the situation: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/sendmail-bin*.deb The "--force-overwrite" option to dpkg tells it to ignore the problem and overwrite fastforward's copy of the duplicate file. This should be enough to get you past the other errors. Generally it's a bug for packages to include the same file without taking special measures. The bug would be in either sendmail-bin or fastforward. I can't find fastforward listed in the Debian package database -- is it an unofficial package? -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
