On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Scott Raun wrote:
> I'm trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb is
> breaking on me. Specifically:
>
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xmh
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb
> E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I've tried doing an apt-get -f install, same problem.
>
> Now what?
If you want to install anyway:
dpkg --install --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb
Etc... Try doing dpgk --help and read up on what you can do with it.
Look into the man pages, etc.
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