On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 18:50, Aaron Turner wrote: > [I'm not subsribed to the list, so please hit reply to all or make sure > I'm in the Cc: line] > > Running testing/unstable and recently did a apt-get update/upgrade. > Updated a whole bunch of X packages. However the libxft-dev (2.1.2-6) > package won't install: > > vodka:~# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libxft-dev > The following packages will be upgraded: > libxft-dev > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded > Need to get 0B/60.2kB of archives. > After unpacking 4096B disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 105242 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using > .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ... > diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev > Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to > /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev' > dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' > with > different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >
see #237509 et.al. $ rm /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h and then try the upgrade again. - christian
