Hi all. I know that a debian mirrors problem was posted about recently on this list, but I decided to do an apt-get update and apt-get -u dist-upgrade on my play box, since I haven't done that for a week, and am using debian unstable. After running apt-get -u dist-upgrade for the first time, and then for a second time, I got the below errors. apt-get -u dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded python python2.3 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 16 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2897kB of archives. After unpacking 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 20978 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python 2.3.2-3 (using .../python_2.3.2-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html', which is also in package python2.3 dpkg: considering removing python in favour of python2.3 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove python (--auto-deconfigure will help): python-newt depends on python (<< 2.4) python is to be removed. dpkg: regarding .../python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb containing python2.3: python2.3 conflicts with python (<= 2.3.2-5) python (version 2.3.2-3) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing python2.3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I then tried dpkg --auto-deconfigure as suggested above, but got a message saying that no action was specified, or something like that. Then, I ran apt-get -u dist-upgrade for the third time, and got the same error messages as above. Can someone please help get me out of this mess? Thanks. Greg -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
