Thank you very much Martin,
This did the trick. The way that this whole thing came up was because time-hires-pm was a dependency of another package that I was trying to install. I spent so much time on this problem that now I forgot what that package was!
Thanks again and I'll forward this message to the package maintainers.
--Dan
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> dpkg: error processing
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/time-hires-pm_1
> .39-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
>� trying to overwrite `/sw/share/man/man3/Time::HiRes.3pm', which is also in
> package perl
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>�
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/time-hires-pm_1
> .39-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
Sounds like a bug in one of the two packages. Since the perl package is
from the "experimental" tree (or where else did you get it from?), it is
probably its fault.
Erasing files on the disk does not help, the conflict is between lists
of files in dpkg's database. You can try to install with the
--force-overwrite option:
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/libs/perlmods/time-hires-pm_1.39-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
And tell the package maintainers about this, they might not always
follow the fink-beginners list.
--
Martin
