* s. keeling keeling@spots.ab.ca [20061104 06:15]:
Incoming from Michael Prokop:
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Preparing to replace coreutils 5.93-5 (using .../coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement coreutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', which is the diverted version of `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz' dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN9pkgPolicyD2Ev aptitude upgrade 36.49s user 22.64s system 72% cpu 1:21.37 total
complaining about a different package each time. What's that symbol lookup error from aptitude? I've tried dpkg -i with similar results.
Regarding to Debian's changelog this problem should have been fixed:
,---- [ /usr/share/doc/coreutils/changelog.Debian.gz ] | coreutils (5.97-1) unstable; urgency=low | | * New upstream version | - cat options work in /proc Closes: 370583 | * [70] add sha2 utilities Closes: 325205 | * remove spurious removal of /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils | in preinst | | -- Michael Stone mstone@debian.org Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:34:44 -0400 `----
Your can force overwrite manually running
# dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb
regards, -mika-