hi
here's the situation:
bilbo:/home/dmallery>> apt-get -f upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-gturing
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnome-gnotski libltdl3
The following packages have been kept back
autoconf balsa base-config bzip2 console-data console-tools
console-tools-libs debhelper dh-make dnsutils enlightenment
enlightenment-data exim freetype2 gadfly gaim-gnome gimp1.2
gimp1.2-nonfree
glade-gnome gnome-applets gnome-help gnome-pim gnome-pim-conduits groff
gs
gsfonts htmlgen idle imagemagick libbz2 libfnlib0 libgnomeprint-bin
libgnomeprint-data libgwrapguile-dev libhtml-parser-perl libpam-modules
libwww-perl mailtools mutt netbase nfs-common ntp perl-5.005-doc ppp
pydb
pysol pysol-cardsets python-bobo python-bobodtml python-bobopos
python-dev
python-doc python-elisp python-examples python-extclass python-gdbm
python-gendoc python-gnuplot python-imaging python-imaging-sane
python-imaging-tk python-kjbuckets python-ldap python-mpz python-netcdf
python-numeric python-numeric-tutorial python-pmw python-pygresql
python-tk
python-xml sawfish sawfish-gnome ssh swig sysklogd tetex-bin util-linux
vflib2 wmaker xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable
xpdf
xsane xserver-svga zope
253 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 88 not
upgraded.
14 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/118MB of archives. After unpacking 9598kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 55280 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gnome-core 1.4.0.6-1.ximian.2 (using
.../gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gnome-core ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/omf/gnome-core/fdl-C.omf', which is also
in package gnome-help-data
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
bilbo:/home/dmallery>>
looks like the process is stuck on a broken gnome-core upgrade.
how do i break out??
thanks
dave
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