On Mon, 29 Jan 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry to bother you with such a simple question, but maybe one of > you wizards can point me into the right direction... I'm trying to > upgrade to the new XFREE86 3.1.2-1 packages and fail everytime I unpack > the xbase package: > > # dpkg --unpack xbase-3.deb > Unpacking ./xbase-3.deb, containing xbase... > tar: Could not create symlink to console: File exists > dpkg-deb subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 > dpkg - error: xbase: failed to install (exit status 1) (skipping this package) > dpkg: 1 errors occured.
I don't know which version of the package you are trying to install from the description that you have given. Please would you run dpkg --info on your xbase-3.deb file and send me the output? Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
