backports packaging error today

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/21 Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/21 D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com>:
>> It looks like 4.2 just hit backports, so there are a huge number of updates
>> downloaded and applied today; unfortunately there seems to be a packaging
>> error for those applying the update to intrepid, so people might want to
>> hold off on downloading/installing the updates for a day or two (especially
>> since it's something like a 300MB download).
>>
>> The error I got partway through the installation is:
>>   package kdebase-runtime-dbg
>>        4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to
>>        overwrite `/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kwalletd.so',
>>        which is also in package kdelibs5-dbg
>>
>> I've filed this as bug 332564.
>>
>>  Doc
>
> do you happen to have koffice? i always got this same error for a file
> shared by koffice and the oxygen icons package.
> in all cases, such an error can be solved manually.
> you need to install the conflicting package using dpkg, with a
> parameter to force overwriting files. this way, the package will be
> installed, and the conflicting file will be overwritten, as far as i
> know, safely. then you can issue apt-get/aptitude/whatever to contniue
> installing the rest of the programs.
>

I got similar errors tonight. I think the cause was that not all
packages was updated to the server at the same time. I waited a few
hours and rerun aptitude update and that would ad a few more packages
and sometimes this morning all packages could be upgraded.

/ Jonas