Edgy update problem(s)

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 03:34 +0100, marc wrote:
> Using Synaptic's "Apply", the result is:
> 
>   E: /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb: 
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package xli
> 
> 
> So, the problem is with /usr/X11R6/bin, but how to fix it?
> 
> (Since there seems to be a conflict with the xli package, I looked at
> removing it, but it would remove ubuntu-desktop, all xserver packages
> and a more, so that's not an option.)
> 

I would try 

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%
3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb

This will install x11-common by overwriting the /usr/X11R6/bin directory