[PLUG] dpkg error- -subprocess paste killed by signal

[Carla Schroder]

On Friday 21 February 2003 09:09 pm, Sean Whitney wrote:
> > Unpacking replacement libarts1 ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/artscat', which is also in package
>
> Right here it's telling you that /usr/bin/artscat is included in two
> packages.  Both libarts1_1.1.1.0 and libarts1-bin.  If you believe that the
> libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb contains a valid version or artscat you can
>
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb.  I've run into
> this many times and it hasn't seemed to be a problem yet.  Same with the
> other error.

Thanks Sean! I'll note that for next time. KDE was so messed up I manually 
hunted down every last app and deleted it. I also deleted /etc/kde2 and 
/etc/kde3, and /user/lib/kde3. Then used only deb 
http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian woody main for my KDE sources. 
Installed the pieces I wanted, and now everything works.

A nice crash course in Debian package management, and the joy of the --dry-run 
option.

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