On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm in serious trouble here. I was upgrading from xorg 6.9 to 7 but my > problem is the usual one. Everything was fine until wajig reported that > the /usr/X11R6/bin directory wasn't empty. It suggested moving the files > somewhere else and then restarting the install. I did this and then all > hell broke loose. Redoing wajig install xserver-xorg aborted again with > dependency problems and suggested I run apt-get -f install, which I did. > That only made things worse. I am now completely stuck. installing, > reinstalling, holding, removing or any other operation using, apt-get, > aptitude, wajig all abort. Running apt-get check gives this: [ . . . ] > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_1%3a7.1.ds-3_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/xgamma', which is also in package unicon > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_1%3a7.1.ds-3_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Any ideas would be extremely helpful
Try 'apt-get remove unicon' followed by the 'apt-get -f install'. You can always reinstall unicon after apt gets the xorg upgrade sorted out. If apt is really wedged then 'dpkg -r unicon' might work to clear the block. I had a similar issue while upgrading a machine to etch earlier this week and I'm pretty sure one or the other invocation solved it for me. (I now wish I paid more attention) so I could tell you for sure.) -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
