On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 10:30, Rick Pasotto wrote: > When the installation process returns an error and even > 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to > forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the > system as it was? > > The errors are: > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-pty-helper.1.gz', > which is also in package libzvt2 > and: > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-doc.1.gz', > which is also in package gnome-bin
Another solution to that is to use dpkg with the force options (explained in the man page or dpkg --help) to get the package with an error to overwrite the file. The deb package in question will be in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. --mike
