apt-get problem

[David J Patrick]

JoeHill wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:49:29 -0500
>David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> uttered:
>
>  
>
>>>You could "force" the install (is that the -f option?), though this
>>>is never highly recommended, you would alway be able to reinstall
>>>knx-alsa.
>>>      
>>>
Should I force the removal of knx-alsa or the install of the alse-base ? 
or both ?

>It's funny, though, that even after renaming /usr/bin/alsamixer, it
>still saw a conflict. Perhaps you were on the right track, and there is
>a record in /var/cache/apt/archives/ that is telling apt-get that
>/usr/bin/alsamixer still exists, even though it does not.
>
>Look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for a config file that lists installed
>packages, and you might be able to comment out or delete the entry.
>  
>
I went into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and all I found there was 
alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb.
I renamed it (NOT.*.NOT) and ran;
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 89.5kB of archives.
After unpacking 233kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main alsa-utils 0.9.6-1 [89.5kB]
Fetched 89.5kB in 1s (78.8kB/s)
(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)

WHAAA ?
sure enough /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb was 
somehow re-spawned  !
hmmmm ..
    Patience, my ass, time to _force_ something !
djp


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