Hoary - latest kdelibs-data update fails

M Galvin mgalvin at nycap.rr.com
Sun Feb 20 23:26:42 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 18:06 -0500, M Galvin wrote:
>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
>
>

I see Andreas posted updates for the kdelibs and associated packages. I
will try them again once they propagate to the server, when updating I
am still seeing the old package. I'll let you know how it goes.

Matt





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