I've seen this problem before occasionally when updating a package from a
pre-splitoff version to a splitoff version.  What happens when you just do
'fink install oaf'?

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On Fri, 17 May 2002, A S Hodel wrote:

> Yesterday I rank fink selfupdate and fink update-all from the cvs archives.
> I'm getting the following error message, and have no clue how to fix it.
> the relevant output is below.  It appears that a library that oaf-shlibs
> wants to update is also "owned" by oaf.  oaf is a dependency for bonobo,
> oaf-shlibs has not yet been installed (a new dependency in the cvs tree?)
>
> Here's the relevant output from fink update-all:
> ===========================================
>
> The following 3 packages will be installed or updated:
>  control-center gnome-core gtkhtml
> The following 11 additional packages will be installed:
>  bonobo-dev bonobo-shlibs control-center-dev control-center-shlibs gconf-dev
>  gconf-shlibs gnome-core-shlibs gtkhtml-dev gtkhtml-shlibs oaf-dev
> oaf-shlibs
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> dpkg -i
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf-shlibs_0.6.7-3_da
> rwin-powerpc.deb
> (Reading database ... 53720 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking oaf-shlibs (from .../oaf-shlibs_0.6.7-3_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf-shlibs_0.6.7-3_da
> rwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
>  trying to overwrite `/sw/lib/liboaf.0.0.0.dylib', which is also in package
> oaf
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf-shlibs_0.6.7-3_d
> arwin-powerpc.deb
> ### dpkg failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package oaf-shlibs-0.6.7-3
>
>
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