Re: broken dependency

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 06:32:29AM +0000, Michael Havens wrote:
> In any case I am trying to apt-get install telnet but I have had a broken
> dependency for a couple of weeks now. The bad file is libxvl.
> It tells me to run it with --fix-missing but that does no good. What can I do?
>
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0', which is also in package
> xlibs

do:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb

You should do this only when you are sure that two packages share the
same file or that a file from one package is supposed to replace a
file from another package.

However, I've done this for every "trying to overwrite:" error I've seen
with debian unstable for several years without noticable problems.

-Dale Farnsworth
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