Thanks. What finally worked for me was using the Dpkg option of --force-overwrite to install xlibs 4.0.1-4.
Best regards, Victor Quoting Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've found that for most of the 4.0.1 upgrades, I've had to remove > groff + man-db and install them again afterwards because of xlibs. Perhaps > a force of some kind would work, I'm not overly concerned by bandwidth > hence I do it this way. > > Cheers, > Corey J. Popelier > http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas > > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Upgraded to the 4.0.1-4 upgrade of X today. xlibs will not install. > > > > X Still works OK with 4.0.1-3 version of xlibs and the 4.0.1-4 versions of > > the > > other X packages. > > > > Here is error message: > > > > # apt-get install xlibs > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. > > Need to get 0B/1101kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > (Reading database ... 67002 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-3 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in > > package > > groff > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-4_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > Please help. > > > > Thanks - Victor > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > >
