[Kubuntu] kdelibs upgrade failure

Anthony David adavid at adavid.com.au
Thu May 5 23:25:35 UTC 2005


On 06/05/2005, at 4:11 AM, paul cooke wrote:

> On Thursday 05 May 2005 16:03, Sean Ryan wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 08:26 +1000, Anthony David wrote:
>>> (Reading database ... 90275 files and directories currently 
>>> installed.)
>>> Preparing to replace kdelibs-data 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3 (using
>>> .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ...
>>> dpkg: error processing
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb
>>> (--unpack):
>>>   trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/default.kde', which is also 
>>> in
>>> package knetworkconf
>>
>> Hi Antony,
>>
>>
>> This has been reported at
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-25294.html
>>
>> Personally I resolved this using :
>>
>> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%
>> 3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb
>>
>> KDE 3.4 has been working fine ever since.
>>
>> But check the above link for discussion on the best approach.
>>
>> This has also been reported as an upstream debian bug.  See
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2004/12/msg00201.html for 
>> details
>>
>
> ah, so it's not an Ubuntu specific problem... I shall chill out now 
> and cease
> pestering the Ubuntu security team to get it fixed... I just wish 
> they'd
> remove the offending packages from the security repositories though and
> prevent other users from having to mess with synaptic to force the old
> package to be kept...
>

Thanks everyone. All OK.

Regards

Anthony





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