hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backage seems to have aserious conflict with sysinit:
-------------- Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11 Suggested packages: glibc-doc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 753 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4211kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 136582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package initscripts Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ----------------------- Is there a trick for getting around a fundamental conflict like this one? My system is pretty well disabled at the moment (e.g., I'm missing "less" and can't install it!any clues? m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
