Package: apt Version: 0.5.4
Dear all, I am trying to downgrade my libux box from testing to stable: I specified in the apt preferences the following lines Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 and when I try to Install/... with dselect, aftere some download time and messages I get the following message dpkg - warning: downgrading debianutils from 2.4.1 to 1.16. (Reading database ... 13273 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace debianutils 2.4.1 (using .../debianutils_1.16_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement debianutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_1.16_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/bin/readlink', which is also in package coreutils dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_1.16_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. Can anybody tell me if I am wrong somewhere? Patrick
