[Linux-disciples] kdslibs-data install overwriting OpenOffice files

[Adam Kessel]

dpt and ken have advised me to redirect all this to l-d.  So I'm
operating under orders.

You could probably remove openoffice.org, do the upgrade, and reinstall
openoffice.org.  Or, more directly:

$ cd /var/cache/apt/archives
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.1-1_all.deb

I think this is basically the problem:

http://bugs.debian.org/233700

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:08:44AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I think you might find this funny, but I'm still having
> troubles with kdelibs-data. Check out the errors below. Any
> idea how to fix this? I took your advice and waited for an
> upgrade, but that apparently didn't help.
> 
> slaniel at JeffTweedy:~$ sudo apt-get install -t unstable
> kdelibs-data libxft2 libxft-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> libxft2 is already the newest version.
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs-data
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libxft-dev
> 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 502 not
> upgraded.
> 76 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/6440kB of archives.
> After unpacking 21.9MB of additional disk space will be
> used.
> Reading changelogs... Done
> (Reading database ... 78609 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Unpacking kdelibs-data (from
> .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.1-1_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.1-1_all.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop',
> which is also in package openoffice.org
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using
> .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
> diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
> Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
> `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with  different file
> `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit
> status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.1-1_all.deb
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> -- 
> ``Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife
>   had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute
>   belief which the enterprise required, Muhammad Din entered
>   the station wagon of scepticism.''
>  -Salman Rushdie, _The Satanic Verses_
> 

-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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