[PADS] Re: [PLUG] Updating Libranet

[Michael Leone]

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On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:40, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:43:57PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > When I tried this before, I got many instances of kde bits not
> > installing - kdelibs and kdebase, from what I remember. Something about
> > some file existing in multiple packages ...
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> Oh yeah, I've seen that before.  Some of the packaging for KDE is a bit
> wonky; two packages contain the same file, which is A Bad Thing.  I look
> at the error messages and determine which package is failing to install
> (it'll give you the file name, ie,
> /var/cache/apt/archives/foo_0.1-1_i386.deb), then install it with 'dpkg
> -i --force-overwrite filename'. =20

Really? I try to avoid "force"s. I did try uninstalling the first
offending package, so that the 2nd could install. Probably a mistake.
:-)

> After that, I continue on my business.
> apt-get dist-upgrade may tell you you need to run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> first, in which case you should do that followed by the dist-upgrade.
> (It may also tell you to run 'apt-get -f install'.  Do that too, then.)
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