peter spake: > Does "apt-get install -f", then "apt-get install gnome-core" help?
bilbo:/home/dmallery>> apt-get install -f Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 193 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up libbz2-1.0 (1.0.2-1) ... bilbo:/home/dmallery>> apt-get install gnome-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1440kB of archives. After unpacking 2396kB will be freed. (Reading database ... 56806 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>> so there is some kind of interlocking relationship between gnome-core and gnome-help=data... perhaps do them both at once? thanks dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) free at last! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]