Installation database corruption

[Leo Noordhuizen]

This is a ctach-22 situation, as I seem to be completely unable to do
something regarding the installed packages.
So removing libtiff doesnt work since it seems to be a mess.
(Executing the suggested 'force-overwrite' command resulted in new error
messages indicating more issues.

Is there a way to remove a number of packages by force and then cleaning up
the database ?

I will be moving to a new computer within a few weeks and then this problem
is resolved automatically, but I want to know anyway.

Thanks, Leo

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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