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Re: [PLUG] debian upgrade confusion
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:56:02PM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> So I try to apt-get -f install, but it doesn't work. Worse, this time
> I don't understand the error message: even if I move away the file it
> wants to overwrite, it fails with the same error.
Keep in mind that you're moving into unstable, and you get the
occasional conflict between package, or {pre,post}{inst,rm} script that
breaks, or whatnot. In this situation, my action would be:
~# dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1.2.13-9_i386.deb
Now, yeah, you wouldn't want to do that blindly, but from the look of
it, it just wants to overwrite a documentation file.
See also dpkg --force-help.
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