What did I do wrong?

[Derek Broughton]

Isapual Daily wrote:

> 
> I'm I wrong to have a attititude with such a warm greatting?

Absolutely!  IRC is hard enough to follow without somebody pasting dozens of 
lines of (mostly useless) text.  

"trying to overwrite `/usr/share/xine/libxine1/fonts/mono-20.xinefont.gz', 
which is also in package libxine1-bin"

was the only line that mattered.

> So I ask You of the community, a jury of my peer's......
> 
> A. What did I do so wrong to desirve this attitude?

You cluttered up a narrow bandwidth channel, drowning out what appeared to 
be an ongoing conversation.  How would you like it if you were at the local 
users group meeting, and were running a problem by a couple of experts, and 
somebody came running in with 10 pages of printouts and started waving them 
in your experts' faces asking them to debug his program?  That's about what 
you did.
> 
> B. I'm I justified at all in having a little attitude?

Not at all. 

> ps, I hope that 1 get atleast 1 reply back so I know that the council or
> op's have not muted me and are sitting back laughing at me like they did
> in the op channel.

What makes you think they did that?  There's a big difference between 
"laughing at you" and "ignoring you" - which I dare say they _were_ doing, 
because you were being rude.

fwiw, your problem exists because mono-20.xinefont.gz exists in two 
different packages on your system.  This should never happen on a pure 
Ubuntu system, but might happen if the file gets moved from one package to 
another and you haven't installed the updated package from which it was 
removed.  In this case, if you're either certain it belongs in your package, 
or don't care, you can just use "dpkg --force-overwrite" to install the 
.deb.  Or, since you created the package yourself, remove it from your 
sources.
-- 
derek