This isn't a problem with xlibs, just a change WRT X policy kind of. Basically your fix is to find your xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb, probably in /var/cache/apt/archives. Then run: dpkg -i --force-overwrite xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb
You also might want to check the files in knews. If dpkg -L knews shows the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults you can send a bug report for it. It needs to be recompiled against X4 to move app-defaults to /etc/X11. Gordon Sadler On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:03:51PM -0600, Ron Jones wrote: > Hi, > > dpkg is choking on xlibs_4.0.2-1: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install xlibs > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 321 not upgraded. > 9 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/1167kB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB will be used. > (Reading database ... 61990 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-10 (using .../xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement xlibs ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in > package knews > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > I have no idea how to begin to debug this. I did notice a previous poster on > this > list with a very similar problem, but the fix suggested (deleting symlink > from > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults) did not work for me.
