Subject: Re: installing gnucash with apt-get
From: Christopher Swingley (cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 21:00:51 AKST
Damien,
* Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net> [2002-Dec-30 09:38 AKST]:
> There seems to be a file that is apart of another binary that is all
> ready installed. When installing gnucash apt-get tries to over write the
> file. For some reason it can't and apt is unable to install gnucash
> because it was unable to install all of the dependencies.
Some things to try:
As someone else suggested, try 'apt-get -f install' This will often
resolve dependency problems, although I don't think it can fix the
problem you're experiencing.
Can you remove the package whose file is being overwritten? If you can
comfortably do 'apt-get remove foo' without any of your important
applications disappearing, do this. If you can do without it
temporarily, you can always try installing it later and see if getting
gnucash on there first will allow you to get both.
It's a little bit riskier, but you can try installing the package that's
overwriting a file from another package (sounds like gnucash, in this
case) using 'dpkg --force-overwrite foo.deb' You'll need to find the
*.deb package you're installing in /var/cache/apt/archive. You might
have to manually install the other dependencies too, depending on how
far apt-get managed to get. 'dpkg --configure --pending' and 'apt-get
-f install' can help get things configured that failed on the previous
attempt.
Look at http://bugs.debian.org for the package causing the error and see
if it's been reported. In the description there might be a solution.
If you're running unstable (sid), check out incoming.debian.org. This
is where stuff goes before it gets inserted into the unstable track.
Often you'll find fixed packages in here. Course, these are even more
bleeding edge than unstable.
Good luck!
Chris
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