On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:19:56AM -0000, Kurt Dresner wrote: > So I managed to get most of the packages updated and everything, thanks to > everyone who helped me on that one, but now I am getting error messages with > two packages that come in the flavor of: > > dpkg error: trying to overwrite file foo.bar which is also in package baz > > What does this mean, and how do I alleviate it? I believe one of the > packages had something to do with tetex or something? I dunno. I'm a silly > newbie.
Set some options in /etc/apt/apt.conf that make it invoke dpkg with the '--force-overwrite' option, or manually run dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/$pkg.deb on the $pkg that is overwriting another package's files. BTW, the package that does this is buggy. Consider filing a bug against it. Cheers, Joost
