Upgrade form Dapper to Edgy Eft

[Florian Diesch]

"Richard Ibbotson" <richard.ibbotson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've upgraded my workstation from Dapper to Edgy Eft.  Part way through the
> upgrade using 'gksu "update-manager -c" ' the upgrade halted and asked me to
> use Synaptic to repair the damage.  This doesn't work either.  Output of some
> error messages is.....
>
> "there are 70 broken packages on your system!"  Use the broken filter
> to locate them.  Done that... and it says..
>
> "E: /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6_i386.deb:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package
> iglooftp"


I had a similar problem and AFAIR I solved it by deinstalling the
conflicting package (iglooftp for you) using dpkg (not apt*):
 dpkg -r iglooftp
and reinstalling it after the upgrade



   Florian
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