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Re: apt-get install error
Click on the GUI button in the "Apt-Get" menu bar that says "Restore to Previous
State."
You can "right click" to see the other options.
(:
Helmut Steinwender wrote:
> dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/packagename --force-overwrite
>
> On Friday 25 January 2002 11:56, Steve Taetzsch wrote:
> > I installed libwxgtk2.2-python, which upgraded a lot of other packages
> > in the process and now I have an apt-get problem. There was an error
> > during the install and running apt-get -f install returns:
> >
> >
> > # apt-get -f install
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> > libzvt2
> > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 629 not upgraded.
> > 19 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/90.1kB of archives. After unpacking 272kB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > (Reading database ... 103715 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to replace libzvt2 1.2.13-ximian.8 (using
> > .../libzvt2_1.4.1.3-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libzvt2 ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libzvt2_1.4.1.3-2_i386.deb
> > (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/gnome-pty-helper', which is also
> > in package gnome-bin dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken
> > pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libzvt2_1.4.1.3-2_i386.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> >
> > I have moved /usr/sbin/gnome-pty-helper to a different name but I guess
> > apt looks in the database and sees the file.
> >
> > How do I get out of this mess?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
>
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