On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:18:14AM -0600, Mike Beddo wrote: > Can someone help me past this problem (see output below)? My sysadmin's > wife decided to have a baby and so he's not here to bail me out. > > Thanks, > > Mike Beddo > > ---------- > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > kdebase-libs kdelibs3 > 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 266 not > upgraded. > 19 packages not fully installed or removed.
You have something amiss here above. 19 packages not fully installed or removed is not good. Try dpkg --configure --pending to resolve that. > Need to get 0B/8797kB of archives. After unpacking 2552kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 46608 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace kdebase-libs 4:2.1-20001216-1 (using > .../kdebase-libs_4%3a2 > .1.1-6_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kdebase-libs ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1.1-6_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kmenuedit.so', which is also in package > kdebase-d > ev Simple answer here is a bit ugly, but: dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs...deb Now that Ivan knows, hopefully he'll fix this. But this isn't coming from unstable... Are these potato packages? > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > dpkg: considering removing kdebase-libs in favour of kdelibs3 ... > dpkg: no, cannot remove kdebase-libs (--auto-deconfigure will help): > task-kdemultimedia depends on kdebase-libs > kdebase-libs is to be removed. > dpkg: regarding .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb containing kdelibs3: > kdelibs3 conflicts with kdebase-libs (<< 4:2.1-20010109-1) > kdebase-libs (version 4:2.1-20001216-1) is installed. > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb (-- > unpack): > conflicting packages - not installing kdelibs3 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1.1-6_i386.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > After using --force-overwrite above, all should return to normal. You may want to run dpkg --configure --pending once again to ensure everything is functioning smoothly. HTH -- Gordon Sadler
