Hoary - latest kdelibs-data update fails

M Galvin mgalvin at nycap.rr.com
Sun Feb 20 23:06:54 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 16:19 -0600, thephotoman wrote:
>If you're a Gnome user, you'll also have to do the same thing with the 
>gnome-menus package after you make that update, or else everything will 
>be all uglified on your menus in Gnome.  Of course, if you're following 
>the kubuntu project, it doesn't really matter.
>
>The file name on your system will vary.
>
>crun wrote:
>> This sometimes happens when one deb packages tries to overwrite a file
>> that already belongs to another. I don't think you can fix it using
>> Synaptic, but with the commandline:
>> 
>> 
>> Code:
>> --------------------
>>     
>>   $ cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
>>   $ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite kdelibs-data_40x1.3fc900000005dp-8893.3.2-1ubuntu7_all.deb
>>   
>> --------------------
>>  
>> 
>> Will force kdeblibs to overwrite the old file.
>> 
>> 
>
>

Thanks for the tips... but...

I'm a Gnome guy, so instead of break my beloved Gnome, i just removed
the kde stuff, and all is well.

Matt





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