When on Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Craig McPherson wrote, I replied:
Thanks a million, Craig. I set force-overwrite in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
and now all is well.
> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:16:00 -0600
> From: Craig McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [SLU] hail to woody
>
> On 16 Dec 00, at 8:08, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> >trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome-font-install', which is also in package...
>
> Whenever you see this error, you need to install the package by
> passing the --force-overwrite argument to dpkg. You can either go
> to your /var/cache/apt directory, find the package file, and install it
> with dpkg --install --force-overwrite, or you can look in /etc/dpkg.
> There's a config file there (I forget the name, I'm on someone's
> 'doze box right now so I can't check) where you can put options
> that'll be passed to dpkg every time it's run. You should put force-
> overwrite in this file. Just add the "force-overwrite" line, don't put "--
> " before it in that file or it won't work.
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