I usually try delete the file that it can't overwrite. or I force the pacage with one of the dpkg--forse-options dpkg --help-force |more.a Then If I can't get one of those options to work I send the information directly to the author of the package You can find the package in question in /var/lib/dpkg/availavle Barry On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
