[possible bug] broken pipe when upgrade from language-pack-ca-base

[Myles Green]

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:03:21 +0000
Matthew Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Xan wrote:
> >...
> > means (not literally):
> > 
> > "Trying to unpack the language-pack-ca-base.....
> > dpkg: there was ann error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-ca-base_20050308_all.deb 
> > (--unpack): it's trying to overwrite 
> > «/usr/share/locale-langpack/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-panel-2.0.mo» that
> > is too in 
> > the package language-pack-ca
> > dpkg-deb: the subprocess paste has been terminated by ? (broken
> > pipe)"
> >...
> 
> Same for me in Synaptic: "E: 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-en-base_20050308_all.deb: 
> trying 
> to overwrite 
> `/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-panel-2.0.mo',
> which 
> is also in package language-pack-en".

<hint>
have a look at 'dpkg --force-help', to be more specific:
'dpkg --force-overwrite --install /path/to/package/foo'
</hint>

HTH
Myles
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