It's a cross-release conflict... xscreensaver in Breezy doesn't contain electricsheep... and backporting the entire xscreensaver chain is probably hopeless... It seems like we should take this package out of backports... <div>On 9/9/05, Brian Gurtler <<a href="mailto:brian@gurtler.net">brian@gurtler.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've reported the bug to xscreensaver and they said that it's a backports issue <a href="http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13299">http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13299</a> John Dong wrote: > Use dpkg --install --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives > /electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb to install the package. > > Unfortunately, two different versions of Electricsheep are present in > two package (xscreensaver and electricsheep) -- APT doesn't like to > assume that you'd want to overwrite existing files, so drops out at > this error. > > this is an upstream packaging bug that can't be solved via the > Backports team. If it really bothers you, file a bug against either > electricsheep or xscreensaver in Ubuntu's Bugzilla. > > > On 9/9/05, *Brian Gurtler* <<a href="mailto:brian@gurtler.net">brian@gurtler.net</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:brian@gurtler.net">brian@gurtler.net</a>>> wrote: > >     could someone do a backport of this? >     the version currently in backports [2.6.2] hasn't ever worked do >     to some >     kind of error.. > >     Unpacking electricsheep (from >     .../electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb) ... >     dpkg: error processing >     /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb >     (--unpack): >     trying to overwrite >     `/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/electricsheep.xml', >     which is also in package xscreensaver >     dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) >     Errors were encountered while processing: >     /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb >     E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > >     -- >     ubuntu-backports mailing list >     <a href="mailto:ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com </a> >     <mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> >     <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports </a> >     <<a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports</a>> > > -- ubuntu-backports mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports</a> </blockquote></div>