At Thursday, 18 March 2004, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> what i ended up doing was: >> >> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-11. >> 5_i386.deb >> >> somehow, that _seems_ to have fixed it. i can run apt-get -f install >> now and it does not complain (part of it's complaint was to remove >> more than 400 packages ... do i really, really, really want to do >> this?) > >OK, so you didn't provide complete output. Had I known about it >complaining specifically about files that were also supplied by some >other package, I would have suggested that. > >
my apologies ... apt-get -f install complained about +400 packages, i figured, probably after the initial email, that there must be a single package that was the root of all evil for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]