[NTLUG:Discuss] Ubuntu Breezy install problem.

[Kipton Moravec]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 20:15 -0600, MikeP wrote:
> Terry wrote:
> 
> >On 11/5/05, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Anyone using Ubuntu Breezy? I was truing to upgrade and got the message
> >>in Synaptic:
> >>
> >>==================
> >>Preconfigureing packages ...
> >>(reading database ... 89407 files and directories currently installed.)
> >>Unpacking libopenh323-1.15.3c2
> >>(from .../libopenh323-1.5.3c2_1.15.6-1_i386.deb ...
> >>dpkg: error
> >>processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libopenh323-1.5.3c2_1.15.6-1_i386.deb
> >>(--unpack)
> >>trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libopenh323.so.1', which is also in
> >>package libopenh323-1.13.2
> >>Unpacking ubuntu-docs (from .../ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb) ...
> >>dpkg: error
> >>processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb
> >>(--unpack):
> >>trying to overwrite '/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html', which
> >>is also in package ubuntu-artwork
> >>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> >>Errors were encountered while processing:
> >>/var/cache/apt/archives/libopenh323-1.5.3c2_1.15.6-1_i386.deb
> >>/var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb
> >>
> >>Failed to apply all changes! Scroll in the terminal buffer to see what
> >>went wrong.
> >>
> >>=============
> >>
> >>How do I fix this? Anyone know?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Try sudo aptitude update in a terminal
> >
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> The command is "sudo apt-get update" or to upgrade the distro
> "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade".  Don't use the quotes.

That was what I was doing when I got the error.

Someone on a forum told me to cd /var/cache/apt/archives

then sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite ubuntu-docs_5.10-6_all.deb

That seemed to fix it.  When I went back to Synaptic It said I had no
more broken packages.

At first I thought the difference was Synaptic used
ubuntu-docs_5.10.6_all.deb and the archive had
ubuntu-docs_5.10-6_all.deb

But since I typed the error message because I can't copy the terminal
from Synaptic, I am now wondering if I made a typo in the error message.
Does anyone know where or if Synaptic logs its terminal?  

The good news is that it works now.


-- 
Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>