That did it. Thanks...
Brad wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Kelly Corbin wrote: > > > On my potato system, 2 files will not install from dselect. > > nfs-server_2.2 fails as it says it is trying to overwrite a file from > > nfs-client. Gnome-utils_1.0.1 fails as it says it is trying to > > overwrite a file in package gnome-pim. Is there a way to force the > > overwrite? This is really starting to bug me. Thanks. > > i've had the same problem recently, dselect doesn't seem to override > properly anymore... > > Assuming you're using the apt dselect method, you cd to > /var/cache/apt/archives/, then you can do dpkg -i --force-overwrite > package.deb > > Be warned that any --force option could do Bad Things (which is why > they're 'force')
