Re: dpkg headache -- please help me to solve

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Nesbit
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 20:16:25 +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0.2+20011202-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg', which is also in package tetex-bin What happened, I

Re: dpkg headache -- please help me to solve

2002-01-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 20:16:25 +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0.2+20011202-1_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/xdvi.cfg', which is also in > package tetex-bin > What happened, If one package wants to o

dpkg headache -- please help me to solve

2002-01-07 Thread Andrew Nesbit
I got dependency trouble (in unstable) when trying to do apt-get dist-upgrade, and so I gave it apt-get -f install. The following error has deadlocked my whole upgrade path: Unpacking replacement tetex-base ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0.2+20011202-1_all.deb