hey. since i upgraded libc6 and dpkg (from unstable) i've been having a lot of problems with dpkg seg faulting trying to install stuff. currently i tried to upgrade gnumeric and it bombs out on gnome-libs-data like this:
(Reading database ... 44809 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-libs-data 1.2.8-helix1 (using .../gnome-libs-data_1.2.12-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-libs-data ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.12-1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/idl/name-service.idl', which is also in package libgnorba27 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.2.12-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) the problem is that i can't upgrade anything else until this is fixed, and i get this over and over again when i run "apt-get -f install" or try to manually install the package with dpkg. i've had problems like this before and normally moving the problem file to /tmp and re-installing works (eg. mv /usr/share/idl/name-service.idl /tmp) to get my by ... but this time it doesn't. how do i get out of this? adam.