thank you,
that worked if only m$ bugs were fixed this easily or quickly. --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shriram Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--- Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar > wrote: > >> > was missing man-db, however, on trying to install, it shows > the > >> > following error message > >> > > >> > trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in > package > >> > texinfo with nondirectory > >> > > >> > any ideas ? > >> > >> Can you give more error output? > > > >Unpacking man-db (from man-db_2.3.18-8_i386.deb) ... > >dpkg: error processing man-db_2.3.18-8_i386.deb (--install): > > trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in package > >texinfo with nondirectory > >dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > >Errors were encountered while processing: > >man_db_2.3.18-8_i386.deb > > IIRC, this was a bug in dpkg. Upgrade it to at least 1.9.7 and you > should be fine. > > dpkg (1.9.7) unstable; urgency=low > > * If a new file doesn't exist on disk, but is a going to be > installed as > a directory, then don't error out. Closes: Bug#17381. > [...] > > -- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 28 May 2001 18:59:03 -0500 > > -- > Colin Watson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
