tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Forrest English
thneed:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not upgra

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using >.../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... >dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb >(--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 11:32:55 -0700, Forrest English wrote: > thneed:/usr/bin# apt-get -o DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite -f install > E: Option DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite: Configuration item > sepecification must have an =. > > did i do somthing stupid? i'm not real familier with what t

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 13:53:07 -0700, Forrest English wrote: > didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. Bleh. If that didn't work, then 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb' definitely should. You could edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.files, b

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Forrest English
didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. is there a way to disasociate that file with netbase? thneed:~# apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages w