Wang Yajun wrote [on 11/11/03 00:44 +0800]: > Hi all: > I am a new debian & gnome user. I am using the debian unstable version > and gnome 2.4 > Basicly, I can not install gnome-utils on my system, and I dont know why? > Will anyone take a look at the following error message? > Your kindly help will be appreciated. > > ERROR MESSAGES: > > debian:/home/yalding# apt-get install gnome-utils > Reading Package Lists... Done > ....[snipped].... > Unpacking gnome-utils (from .../gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome-character-map', which is also in > package gucharmap Most probably this is a problem not related to GNOME. I think this is related to the Debian Sid (unstable). I am on Debian Woody, but most of the packages on my system now are from unstable. I faced this kind of problem a few times. Normally I solve this type of problems the following way: Goto /var/cache/apt/archives/ Find the file gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb. It should be there. Install it using the following command as root user: # dpkg -i --force-overwrite ./gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb (See `dpkg --force-help' for more info) This should force the install. After that, just to be sure that everything was correctly configured, re-run the command `apt-get install gnome-utils' Regards, Santanu _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
