From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-out1.hurontel.on.ca ([216.46.129.246]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AO3rO-00087d-00 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:41:46 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by smtp-out1.hurontel.on.ca (8.12.9/8.12.6) id hANNfjKq028526 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:41:45 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.100] (hsiarip.hurontel.on.ca [216.46.141.114]) by smtp-out1.hurontel.on.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hANNGMvN002922 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:16:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:16:20 -0500 (EST) From: Barry Pollock X-X-Sender: barryp@box To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20031123220714.GA10886@romuald.net.eu.org> Message-ID: References: <20031123220714.GA10886@romuald.net.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: 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 23:41:46 -0000 I usually try delete the file that it can't overwrite. or I force the pacage with one of the dpkg--forse-options dpkg --help-force |more.a Then If I can't get one of those options to work I send the information directly to the author of the package You can find the package in question in /var/lib/dpkg/availavle Barry On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >