On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:34:51PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-7 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-8_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-8_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in > package xscreensaver > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
What I did was to use --force-overwrite, I haven't had any problems because of this. > Should I file a bugreport against xscreensaver? What is the correct > thing to do? AFAICR, yes, you should. X clients should use /etc/X11/app-defaults. Hope this helps, Charl -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/
