On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:42:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote:
> Here's a problem related to your problem. I got the same error when > trying to install xlibs. Earlier, I had received a warning about the > app-defaults thing. I moved the files in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/app-defaults, and made a > symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/app-defaults > (because I thought this was what I was supposed to do). I have done this too. I get the error message only with xlibs and I get over it by using 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite xlibs-blah-blah'. Dpkg complains that xlibs has unresolved dependencies, but I then repeat the 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and apt carries on configuring packages. In that process it will configure xlibs correctly. Apt-get is annoying when it decides to simply stop processing any more packages it has downloaded. There have been times when I haven't realised what it has done (or not done) and I have had a half-upgraded system as a result. Now I tend to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' more than once to assure myself that it has indeed completed the process. You can use dpkg to configure pending packages too. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000
