At 11:14 -0500 1998-02-16, David Gaudine wrote: >dselect was unable to upgrade my samba using samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb. >I then rather foolishly used "dpkg --purge samba" to see if a >fresh install went better, this was a mistake since it left me with >no samba at all instead of the older one. I have copied the >dselect messages to the end of this message. Is there a known problem? >If not, is there a log file I should look into for more details? > >Unpacking samba (from .../net/samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb) ... >dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/ > samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/smbmount.8.gz', which is also in > package ksmbfs >dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) >Errors were encountered while processing: > debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb
The latest hamm dpkg does not have --force-overwrite enabled by default, this is so overlaps between packages can be easily spotted and corrected. You can do a dpkg --force-overwrite --install path/to/samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb manually. The overlap has been reported as a bug, see <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/17/17932.html> if you like. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.espy.org/> <http://www.debian.org/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .