apt-get problem

David J Patrick davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 31 16:42:39 UTC 2003


It seems you are correct in the conclusion that knx-alsa is dukin' it 
out with the main packages.
Here's what happens when I try "-f install", as suggested by the error 
messeges.

root at PIII500:/mnt/hda8/djp# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  alsa-utils
Suggested packages:
  alsadriver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  alsa-utils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 161 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/89.5kB of archives.
After unpacking 233kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 149680 files and directories currently installed.)
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)


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