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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 24 Aug 2003 08:01:51 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 24 03:01:49 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mail03.agrinet.ch [81.221.250.52] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19qpor-000655-00; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 03:01:49 -0500 Received: from akasha.yshara.ch (80.254.179.169) by mail03.agrinet.ch (7.0.018) id 3F1B98C600441C38; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:01:47 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Andreas Tscharner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: xlibmesa-gl-dev: Installation failure due to impossible overwrite of a file Bcc: Andreas Tscharner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: reportbug 2.24 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 10:01:41 +0200 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_20,HAS_PACKAGE version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_8_17 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_8_17 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Package: xlibmesa-gl-dev Version: 4.2.1-9 Severity: normal When trying to install xlibmesa-gl-dev, I got the following message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa-gl-dev_4.2.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/ust/include/GL', which is also in package xlibmesa-glu-dev I get of course the same message for xlibmesa-glu-dev -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux akasha 2.4.21 #1 Tue Aug 5 20:44:52 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xlibmesa-gl-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.2-3 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii xlibmesa3-gl 4.2.1-10 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibs-dev 4.2.1-10 X Window System client library dev -- no debconf information --------------------------------------- Received: (at 206970-done) by bugs.debian.org; 24 Aug 2003 20:14:17 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 24 15:14:15 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from dhcp065-026-182-085.indy.rr.com (redwald.deadbeast.net) [65.26.182.85] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 19r1Ff-0008LI-00; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:14:15 -0500 Received: by redwald.deadbeast.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD80C640E7; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:14:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:14:14 -0500 From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#206970: xlibmesa-gl-dev: Installation failure due to impossible overwrite of a file Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.8 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_20,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_8_17 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_8_17 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:43:48PM +0200, Andreas Tscharner wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you type that error in by hand? I feel pretty sure that none of > > my packages tried to install ANYTHING do a directory called "/ust". [...] > Yes, of course. I meant /usr/include/GL > >=20 > > Is /usr/include/GL a symbolic link on your system? If so, you may > > need to purge and reinstall both packages. This would be a dpkg bug, > > not a bug in my packages -- they don't attempt to install a symbolic > > link to that location. >=20 > Yes, it was. It was even invalid, pointing to the old nVidia files (that > don't exist any more). Deleting it helped. >=20 > Thank you very much and sorry for bothering... No problem. Thanks for following up so quickly. Closing per submitter. --=20 G. 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