[gutsy] second dpkg error in one day

[Jack Bowling]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:22:03PM -0500, Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> Hi there list,
> 
> As we are getting closer to the gutsy release i switched over a few
> days ago.  As with each release I expect my twice-daily apt-get
> dist-upgrade to break something on occasion.
> 
> However, twice today I've had packages break- and halt the
> installation of other packages-  for a fairly common reason
> 
> The error in both cases (once with gimp2.4 and once with cupsys) is
> that some non-essential file (readme in one case, and credits.txt in
> the other) is trying to be managed by both the main package and the
> lib* package at the same time.
> 
> My question is twofold:
> 
> first, is there a more user-friendly way of getting the rest of the
> packatges marked for install to continue without issuing
> 
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/[package-name].deb
> 
> and second, is there anything the devs can do to avoid this?  why
> would a lib file's credits or readme be overwritten by the main
> package?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any answers/suggestions.

Standard advice for the beta stage is to just wait a while and things will
get fixed. Having said that, if you just uncheck cupsys in update manager,
the rest of the updates will proceed to be installed.

Jack