Ximian was the old Helix Gnome. I have decided not to install it. I just wanted to experiment with it. I will do so on a different system though.
Rusty On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:15 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > rusty, > > you have to understand that i don't even know what ximian is. > > but based on package information and your email, it looks like > ximian is some kind of replacement for gnome. in fact, the > error you saw is ximian trying to write a file over another > file that already exists on your filesystem. > > while it kind of sucks you got an error, just think about the > heartache it avoided -- just willy nilly overwriting a file. > package management rules. anyway. > > again, i don't know what ximian is, but it looks like you'll > have to uninstall a good chunk of gnome to install it. > > maybe someone can give you a better answer, but from what > little i know about these packages, this is how i see it. > > pete > > > begin Rusty Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I commented out the line and did an apt-get dist-upgrade > > (yes after and update) and all is good again, but I would > > like to experiment with Ximian. > > > > Rusty > > > > On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:07 am, Rusty Minden wrote: > > > I have decided to try to install Ximian Desktop. I added > > > this > > > > > > deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main > > > > > > to /etc/apt/sources.list and got this error after the > > > second apt-get dist-upgrade > > > I used the apt-get -f install per the error message when I > > > ran apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > > > penny:/home/rdm# apt-get -f install > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > > Correcting dependencies... Done > > > The following extra packages will be installed: > > > gnome-bin > > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 > > > not upgraded. > > > 15 packages not fully installed or removed. > > > Need to get 0B/84.9kB of archives. After unpacking 1270kB > > > will be used. > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > > (Reading database ... 93488 files and directories > > > currently installed.) > > > Preparing to replace gnome-bin 1.4.2-8 (using > > > .../gnome-bin_1%3a1.4.1.6-1.ximian.1_i386.deb) ... > > > Unpacking replacement gnome-bin ... > > > dpkg: error processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1%3a1.4.1.6-1.ximian.1_i > > >386. deb (--unpack): > > > trying to overwrite > > > `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-pty-helper.1.gz', which is also > > > in package libzvt2 > > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1%3a1.4.1.6-1.ximian.1_i > > >386. deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error > > > code (1) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > vox-tech mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
