Debian upgrade woes continue

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Author: Jeremy C. Reed
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Subject: Debian upgrade woes continue
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Mike Starke wrote:

> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-syslogd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/logger.1.gz', which is also in package bsdutils
> Unpacking inetutils-inetd (from .../inetutils-inetd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-inetd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/inetd.8.gz', which is also in package netkit-inetd
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-syslogd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-inetd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again


Did you follow this advice above "Please fix them"??

Maybe try removing the netkit-inetd and bsdutils packages.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/