* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.) John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ... John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install): John> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/convert-metadata.db.1.gz', John> which is also in package mc John> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Run the installation of mc, mc-common and gmc simultaniously with dpkg -i mc.. gmc ... mc-common... Maybe the old mc package you have installed erroneously contains the manpage as well. You could deinstall the old mc package first as well. Ciao, Martin