This method worked very well.
Thanks
Aviram Jenik wrote:
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:02, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:
Hello
in the middle of upgrading postgres the whole proccess died asking me to
run apt-get -f install
This happens once in a while. No need to be especially alarmed.
the result of the action is here:
apt-get -f install
[...]
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
The purists have answered the "right" answers. Here is my quick-and-dirty
method.
The error is that 2 packages have the same file (/usr/include/com_err.h). But
since you don't really care much about this file (i.e. it probably doesn't
really matter which of the versions stay on your system, they might even both
have the same version of the file) my solution is to do:
dpkg -i
--force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libkrb5-dev_1.2.4-5woody6_i386.deb
This will manually install the package, forcing an overwrite of the offending
file. After that, run
apt-get -f install
again, and repeat for any such errors that happen. Voila! the system is
installed and you spent less than 10 seconds on it.
I've been doing this for 2 years (happens to me once every few months) and
haven't seen any downsides. But again- this is the 'quick and dirty' and not
necessarily the "right" answer.
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