libnjb5 has a bug, in that it replaces and conflicts with libnjb-hotplug but doesn't say so in the package's control file. The work-around is to remove libnjb-hotplug before installing libnjb5.
Cheers, Shaun On 2/16/06, Tucker Hermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Shaun, > I just performed a system upgrade using aptitude running on my etch > system and I got the following results: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > libnjb5 > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/92.0kB of archives. After unpacking 45.1kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y > Writing extended state information... Done > (Reading database ... 144052 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libnjb5 2.2.4-1 (using > .../libnjb5_2.2.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libnjb5 ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libnjb5_2.2.5-2_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/etc/hotplug/usb/nomad.usermap', which is also in > package libnjb-hotplug > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libnjb5_2.2.5-2_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > > I saw there was a bug report on January 6 mentioning something similar > in Sid. Is there a work around for this? Is libnjb-hotplug no longer > required? > > I couldn't seem to find any more information on it. > > thanks, > Tucker
