From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.171] ident=mailnull) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVZdx-0004Ec-00 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:44:17 -0400 Received: from 24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com ([24.105.197.112] helo=hq) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51) id 1FVZdw-0000eJ-At for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:44:16 -0400 Received: from chuckh by hq with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FVZe0-0002M4-18 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:44:20 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 24.105.197.112 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: corcyra Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:44:19 -0400 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: package installation problem Message-ID: <20060417194419.GA8998@hhs48.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 From: Charles Hallenbeck X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:44:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Can someone please advise me what to do? I have been living happily with the Debian unstable distro for some time, but got bitten recently. The package "manpages-dev" was being upgraded along with a bunch of other stuff, and it failed with an error. I tried a number of things, including doing a remove and purge and a new install of the package, and it still failed with the same error. I will include a snapshot of it below. It seems that it wants to copy over a file that is included with modutils, and that is a no no. But now I have lost the earlier set of manpages, which includes most of the development stuff, system calls from GCC, and the like. I am sort of out of ideas on this one, and really miss those man pages. Here is the snapshot: hq:~# apt-get install manpages-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: manpages-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1158kB of archives. After unpacking 2875kB of additional disk space will be used. Reading package fields... 0% Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... 0% Reading package status... 0% Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% [0/1] Retrieving bug reports... 0% [0/1] Retrieving bug reports... Done (Reading database ... 42416 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking manpages-dev (from .../manpages-dev_2.25-2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-dev_2.25-2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz', which is also in package modutils dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages-dev_2.25-2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) hq:~# Thanks. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (83% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEQ/ATXnuiIOyDVQURAitZAKChkmkSH2S2FjGjUVwF6Ix3daw8dwCfc7hd 1Tc5lhrLohlkq+u00jvOfLw= =wLsp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----