On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Scott Raun wrote: > I'm trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb is > breaking on me. Specifically: > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xmh > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb > E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I've tried doing an apt-get -f install, same problem. > > Now what? If you want to install anyway: dpkg --install --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb Etc... Try doing dpgk --help and read up on what you can do with it. Look into the man pages, etc. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011018/4c994a1a/attachment.pgp