Kate Draven wrote on 11/19/18 6:18 PM: >> On Monday 19 November 2018 18:39:56 D. R. Evans wrote: >> >>> I tried to update my debian stable TDE-based system this morning, and >>> received this error message: >>> >>> E: >>> /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-96xDOO/031-tdebase-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.6~pre21 >>> -0debian9.0.0+7_all.deb: trying to overwrite >>> '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/kcmdf.png', which is >>> also in package kdf-trinity 4:14.0.6~pre5-0debian9.0.0+0 >>> >>> Synaptic is reporting a broken package, but the instructions as to how >>> to proceed in this situation are exceedingly unclear. >>> >>> Anyway. Something is obviously wrong, and it appears to be a TDE >>> packaging error of some kind and I thought I should post here to put >>> the issue before people who understand this a lot better than I do. >>> >>> Doc >> >> I also got that same message, and now I am stuck because of broken >> packages held. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> -- >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Your mission, should you decide to accept it... > > In Synaptic, at the bottom left, click on "custom filters" > then click on broken, to view broken packages. > > To fix broken packages, in the text menu, at the top, click on edit, then > click on fix broken packages. > Magic! Thank you. (I don't pretend to understand what it actually did, but it seems to have worked; nothing is reported as broken any more, and synaptic will now run updates again -- it refused to do so as long as it thought that there was a broken package.) Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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