Installation database corruption
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 24 08:30:02 UTC 2011
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:21:31AM +0100, Leo Noordhuizen wrote:
> Unpacking libtiff-tools (from .../libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/fax2ps.1.gz', which is also in
> package libtiff 3.9.4-2
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-5ubuntu6_i386.deb
That said, I'm curious why a 'libtiff' package exists. At version
3.9.4-2, there was a 'libtiff4' package (and others), but not 'libtiff'.
Might you have built this yourself at some point? It might be worth
removing it.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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