Problem with libgtksourceview1.0-0

[Myles Green]

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:56:34 -0700
Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:06:21 -0500
> Matthew B Philmon <mattisking at pobox.com> wrote:
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> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I'm having trouble updating the libgtksourceview1.0-0 package. Below
> > is 
> > my attempt to do an "apt-get -f install" to correct the problem.
> > It's 
> > Hoary so I'm used to breakages right now but I can't install any of
> > the 
> > other updates until I get this fixed and removing the offending
> > package 
> > removes TONS of other packages. Any suggestions what I could try
> > (other 
> > than simply waiting)? I'm not completely certain if this is a
> > problem 
> > others are having or not or I'd just wait.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > 
> > $ sudo apt-get -f install
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >   libgtksourceview-common
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   libgtksourceview-common
> > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
> > 5 not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/260kB of archives.
> > After unpacking 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > Reading changelogs... Done
> > 
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > (Reading database ... 118966 files and directories currently
> > installed.)
> > Preparing to replace libgtksourceview-common 1.1.1-1 (using 
> > .../libgtksourceview-common_1.1.90-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement libgtksourceview-common ...
> > dpkg: error processing 
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtksourceview-common_1.1.90-0ubuntu1_all
> > .d
> > eb 
> > (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite 
> > `/usr/share/gtksourceview-1.0/language-specs/nemerle.lang', which is
> > 
> > also in package libgtksourceview-cil
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtksourceview-common_1.1.90-0ubuntu1_al
> >  l.
> >  deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> sudo dpkg --force-overwrite --install
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtksourceview-common_1.1.90-0ubuntu1_all.d
> eb
> 
> You might want to make a quick check of the dpkg man-page but I'm
> pretty
> sure the above will fix things for you. BTW, that's supposed to be all
> on one line... darned word-wrap anyway ;-)

Sorry for replying to my own post, I forgot to add that you'll need to
do:

sudo apt-get -f install

to finish up the remaining 57 packages.

Cheers!

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Myles Green <rmg57 at telus dot net> Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Dev. Branch 
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
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