Recent Dapper upgrade issues...

[Derek Broughton]

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> Installed Dapper about 1 week ago, each day I download updates and install
> them using aptitude dist-upgrade. For the last several days the kernel
> image has had some kind of error. I don't know what the error means, what
> causes it  or what the solution might be....
...
>  trying to overwrite
>  `/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.ko', which is
>  also in package sony

You can either remove "sony" (it doesn't seem to be part of dapper!) or:

dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.15-23-686_2.6.15-23.39_i386.deb


-- 
derek