dist-upgrade removes xserver-xorg*

[Holiday]

I received the error below and then when prompted to apply the update for
x-common, thought 'well ok let's try that'

Got this

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.08_all.deb: trying to overwrite
`/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xfonts-base


On 9/23/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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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