On 07/24/2012 12:06 PM, Xavier de Almeida wrote:
Hi Larry and the team, couldn't install my compiled (make + checkinstall) package. sudo dpkg -i compat-wireless-2012-07_03-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 214923 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking compat-wireless-2012-07 (from compat-wireless-2012-07_03-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing compat-wireless-2012-07_03-1_i386.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/bin/ntfs-3g', which is also in package ntfs-3g 1:2012.1.15AR.1-1ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: compat-wireless-2012-07_03-1_i386.deb Should I just to a make install instead?
Yes. Using "make" and "sudo make install" is the correct way. Building a .deb. may be necessary to install a whole kernel (it is not on my distro), but not for compat-wireless.
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