On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:47:59AM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: > I am running Woody. I was trying to update CUPS by using Synaptic when I > got this message: > > > (Reading database ... 93315 files and directories currently > installed.) > Preparing to replace cupsys 1.1.14-3 (using > .../cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb) ... > Stopping CUPSys: cupsd. > Unpacking replacement cupsys ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/lpinfo', which is also in package > cupsys-client > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Starting CUPSys: cupsd. > > Update failed - Scroll in this buffer to see what went wrong > > > > That was all it said, nothing else. What do I need to do?
# dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.1.14-4.4_i386.deb See man dpkg. -- Jerome
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