request: electricsheep 2.6.3

Brian Gurtler brian at gurtler.net
Fri Sep 9 21:03:34 CDT 2005


i want 2.6.3 not 2.6.2

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* <brian at gurtler.net
> <mailto:brian at gurtler.net>> 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)
>
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