> Thanks, Paddy, that did it for me, too. Out of curiosity (as a Debian
> newbie) what had gone wrong with the package upgrade?
>
> Ollie
Glad to help.
I still class myself as a newbie to. It would appear to be a simple bug
with the way the libxft-dev was built.
If you noticed the line in the erro
> > I had the exact problem with this upgrade upgrade.
> >
> > What I did was to move Xft.h out of the way.
> >
> > Try this;
> > cd /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/
> > mv Xft.h Xft.hbak
> >
> > Then do;
> >
> > apt-get -f install
> > dpkg --configure -a
> >
> > That solved it for me.
> >
> > --
> > Pa
That got me back in business.
Thanks!!
On Friday 02 April 2004 10:47, Patrick Beard wrote:
> > dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
>
> `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h'
>
> > with
> > different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
>
> I had the exact problem with this upg
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
`/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h'
> with
> different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
I had the exact problem with this upgrade upgrade.
What I did was to move Xft.h out of the way.
Try this;
cd /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/
mv Xf
I just solved mine a while ago. What i did is purge libxft-dev from
dselect including those that depend on it, taking note of them. Then,
apt-get install libxft-dev (getting the newer version). And, apt-get
install xxx, where xxx are those that got purged together with
libxft-dev. This is p
can anyone help me with this?
I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade a few days ago on my testing system
and ran into the following problem with libxft-dev. I tried removing the kde
and qt -dev stuff since I don't need it anymore, but apt-get won't allow it.
Help! I can't install anything a
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