dist-upgrade removes xserver-xorg*

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 23 11:11:39 UTC 2005


On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:45:37AM -0400, Barry Marler wrote:
> There /is/ this, though:
> 
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 63152 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace x-common 1.06 (using
> .../archives/x-common_1.07_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement x-common ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.07_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xfonts-base
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.07_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

If you can't find a report about that in Bugzilla, please file one.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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