Stephen Early writes ("Re: xbase installation problem"):
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> > I upgraded to tar 1.11.8-1, but it made no difference... :-(
> > Still this stupid error message about an existing symlink to console!
> > Seems like I have to install the whole system once again. :-((No, the problem is that your dpkg is very out of date. Recent versions of dpkg no longer use `tar' (which is incidentally still full of bugs and infelicities even at version 1.11.8). > No, you shouldn't have to install everything again. It is very rare IME for the solution to a broken Debian system to be `install everything again'. Usually running `dpkg --install' on the right .deb files will fix it. In this case, dpkg --install dpkg-1.0.5.deb dpkg --install xbase-*.deb Ian. (PS: I said this earlier to just debian-user, but you didn't seem to see it.)
