I received the error below and then when prompted to apply the update for x-common, thought 'well ok let's try that' Got this E: /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.08_all.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xfonts-base <div>On 9/23/05, Colin Watson <<a href="mailto:cjwatson@ubuntu.com">cjwatson@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:45:37AM -0400, Barry Marler wrote: > There /is/ this, though: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 63152 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace x-common 1.06 (using > .../archives/x-common_1.07_all.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement x-common ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.07_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xfonts-base > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.07_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) If you can't find a report about that in Bugzilla, please file one. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [<a href="mailto:cjwatson@ubuntu.com">cjwatson@ubuntu.com</a>] -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>