On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 15:33:48 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:39:41 -0000, pedxing wrote: > > On Jun 7, 9:50 am, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:04:54 -0000, pedxing wrote: > > > > I ran into this problem when trying to do my weekly aptitude upgrade > > > > on an AMD64 system running Lenny: > > > > ---- > > > > Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 (using .../archives/ > > > > libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb) ... > > > > Unpacking replacement libc6 ... > > > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb > > > > (--unpack): > > > > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib64', which is also in package gtk-qt- > > > > engine
[...] > I think you can eliminate the problem like this: > > 1) Download the fixed version of gtk-qt-engine: > > wget > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-qt-engine/gtk-qt-engine_0.8~svn-rev36-2_amd64.deb > > 2) Shut down X, go to a tty and become root. Then install the new > version that you just downloaded: > > dpkg -i gtk-qt-engine_0.8~svn-rev36-2_amd64.deb I realized that this will not work because the new version of gtk-qt-engine depends on the new version of libc6, which you cannot currently install because of the file conflict with the old version of gtk-qt-engine. I am afraid you have to break this deadlock by force: dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb dpkg -i gtk-qt-engine_0.8~svn-rev36-2_amd64.deb apt-get install -f -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]