On 4/15/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:57 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > I'm trying to install alpine, the free successor to pine, but aptitude > reports: > > Unpacking alpine (from .../alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83 > +dfsg-2_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz', which is also > in package pine > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. > > I don't want to remove pine until I'm sure alpine is an appropriate > replacement. I removed the offending file, but the error remains. Is > there a way I can force alpine to be installed? I read the aptitude > manual, but could find no way to override its refusal to install. remove "pine" first.
As I said, I don't want to do that until I'm satisfied that alpine is a suitable replacement. Anyway, what I did was ' dpkg --force-overwrite -i alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb' and it installed, overwriting a few files common to both packages. And alpine is a completely seamless replacement, which is cool! Patrick
