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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