apt problems (?)

[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 01:32, David J Patrick wrote:

> Unpacking libxv1 (from .../libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXv.so.1.0', which is also in
> package xlibs
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb

From there you should be able to go back to using apt.

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