4 packages not fully installed or removed

Am 12. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Michael Havens so:

> I just ran apt-get upgrade and got an error and was wondering if there wa=
s
> anything I could do about it?
> <:-)~MIKE~(-:>
> -- root@bmike1:/home/knoppix# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> (etc.)
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 155 not upgraded=
=2E
> 4 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/2355kB of archives. After unpacking 3355kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 112579 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace koffice-i18n-de 1.2.1-0woody2 (using
> .../koffice-i18n-de_1.2.92-1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement koffice-i18n-de ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/koffice-i18n-de_1.2.92-1_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/apps/koffice/autocorrect/de.xml', which =
is
> also in package koffice-data
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/koffice-i18n-de_1.2.92-1_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> root@bmike1:/home/knoppix#

There's a file in two different packages. For packaging purposes all files
are single-parent files.

You probably don't need the German internationalization stuff, so in this
particular case I'd say to solution is to uninstall that package, then
continue with the update.

ciao,

der.hans
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