error during update(sysvinit-utils and sysvutils error)

[Derek Broughton]

vijay kumar wrote:

> Dear Member,
> I am getting error during update of package manager
> 
> 
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit-utils_2.86.ds1-47~bpo40+1_i386.deb:
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/mesg.1.gz', which is also in
> package sysvutils
> 
> 
> Anyone know what I can do ?

Stop using non-ubuntu packages?  afaict, this is only available in Debian.
If you install non-standard packages, you can hardly expect them to coexist
with the ubuntu packages without some manual intervention.
-- 
derek