apt-get problem

[Kareem Shehata]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:11, David J Patrick wrote:
> Thing were going great with my (knoppix installed) debian testing/ 
> unstable system untill recently,
> when apt-get began to choke on knx-alsa.
> Now I run into apt-get errors that I'm not sure how to fix.
> 
> any such operation (CLI or Kpackage) terminates with;
> 
> ...
> Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/alsamixer', which is also in package knx-alsa
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> error messages suggest "apt-get -f install", but that doesn't help.
> I've tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" and "apt-get remove knx-*" without 
> success.
> I.ve tried renaming `/usr/bin/alsamixer' (no-go) and now I'm stumped.
> 
> should I go into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and nuke offending entries ?
> 
> ideas ?
> 
> thanks,
> djp

Hmmmm... from where I am, I can only really state the obvious and hope
to catch something you may have missed.  Apologies in advance if I'm
insulting anyones intelligence.

It sounds like knx-alsa conflicts with the main alsa packages.  Dumb
question: did you try "apt-get remove knx-alsa" or "apt-get remove
knx-*"?  So far as I know, the latter won't work.  If the former, what
messages do you get?  Have you tried "apt-get check"?

Kareem

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