/me is willing to set the severity of this bug to important On Friday 03 October 2008, Clint Adams wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:24:20AM +0100, Christopher J. Walker wrote: > > update manager fails with the error message: > > > > An error occurred > > The following details are provided: > > > > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-11_i386.deb: trying to > > overwrite `/usr/lib/libdb-4.6.a', which is also in package libdb-dev > > Please let us know if repeating the upgrade attempt fails or succeeds > on the second time.
Following apt's advice to try apt-get -f install does work; any second, third, or more dist-/upgrade attempts won't help at all. As odd as it may seem, once libdb My log: apt-get upgrade > Unpacking libdb4.6-dev (from .../libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-11_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-11_i386.deb (--unpack): trying > to overwrite `/usr/lib/libdb-4.6.a', which is also in package libdb-dev > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Preparing to replace libdb-dev 4.6.21-8 (using > .../libdb-dev_4.7.25.2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb-dev ... > Preparing to replace libdb4.6 4.6.21-8 (using > .../libdb4.6_4.6.21-11_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb4.6 ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-11_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) apt-get dist-/upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these. > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > libaprutil1-dev: Depends: libdb4.6-dev but it is not installed > libdb-dev: Depends: libdb4.6-dev (>= 4.6.21-9) but it is not installed > php5-build-deps: Depends: libdb4.6-dev but it is not installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Correcting dependencies...Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: libdb-dev > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. > The following extra packages will be installed: > libdb4.6-dev > Suggested packages: > db4.6-doc > The following NEW packages will be installed > libdb4.6-dev > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 2 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 653kB of archives. > After this operation, 1778kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y > Get: 1 http://localhost testing/main libdb4.6-dev 4.6.21-11 [653kB] > Fetched 653kB in 0s (5478kB/s) > Setting up libdb4.6 (4.6.21-11) ... > (Reading database ... 369875 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libdb4.6-dev (from .../libdb4.6-dev_4.6.21-11_i386.deb) ... > Setting up libdb4.6-dev (4.6.21-11) ... > Setting up libdb-dev (4.7.25.2) ... and problem solved. Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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