From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.18]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AO2Nt-00077H-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:07:13 -0500 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AO2Nq-0007AX-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:07:10 -0800 Received: (qmail 10940 invoked by uid 1023); 23 Nov 2003 22:07:14 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:07:14 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: <20031123220714.GA10886@romuald.net.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: debian problems, please help X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:07:13 -0000 Hi all. I know that a debian mirrors problem was posted about recently on this list, but I decided to do an apt-get update and apt-get -u dist-upgrade on my play box, since I haven't done that for a week, and am using debian unstable. After running apt-get -u dist-upgrade for the first time, and then for a second time, I got the below errors. apt-get -u dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded python python2.3 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 16 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2897kB of archives. After unpacking 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 20978 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python 2.3.2-3 (using .../python_2.3.2-6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement python ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html', which is also in package python2.3 dpkg: considering removing python in favour of python2.3 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove python (--auto-deconfigure will help): python-newt depends on python (<< 2.4) python is to be removed. dpkg: regarding .../python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb containing python2.3: python2.3 conflicts with python (<= 2.3.2-5) python (version 2.3.2-3) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing python2.3 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3_2.3.2-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I then tried dpkg --auto-deconfigure as suggested above, but got a message saying that no action was specified, or something like that. Then, I ran apt-get -u dist-upgrade for the third time, and got the same error messages as above. Can someone please help get me out of this mess? Thanks. Greg -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org