pollywog wrote: > > I believe the problems I am having with X might be due to the base-files > package being broken; the newest one will not install. Would that break X?
I got this error when I tried to upgrade my potato today: --- Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement base-files ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/inputrc', which is also in package libreadlineg2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) --- I'm having probs with base-files too, but it hasn't broken my X. -- -------------------------------------------- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( --------------------------------------------