On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > Hello > > in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to > run apt-get -f install >
this means that ther ewas already an error and there are some unconfigured packages. > the result of the action is here: > > apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libkrb5-dev > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libkrb5-dev > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded. > 6 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/434kB of archives. After unpacking 1794kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y > (Reading database ... 15122 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking libkrb5-dev (from .../libkrb5-dev_1.2.4-5woody6_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libkrb5-dev_1.2.4-5woody6_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/include/com_err.h', which is also in package > comerr-dev > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libkrb5-dev_1.2.4-5woody6_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) One option is to remove the ofending package: dpkg --remove commerr-dev This will work if there isn't too much depedent on that package. As this is a -dev package you can probably live without it. However the first thing to check is how this conflict was created in the first place. Where are those two packages (the new libkrb5-dev_1.2.4-5woody6_i386.deb and the original comerr-dev ) come from? Which apt source? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
