On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Calculating upgrade...Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > x11-common > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/1124kB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 80197 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace x11-common 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 (using > .../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement x11-common ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/include/X11', which is also in package libxft-dev > System startup links for /etc/init.d/x11-common already exist. > Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done. > Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done. > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > How to get out of this error. I did apt-get -f install. that also didn't help.
What happened with this? I just saw it today (been awhile since an upgrade) and now I'm stuck. A > -- > L.V.Gandhi > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > linux user No.205042
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