apt problems (?)

[Tim Writer]

Fraser Campbell <fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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.

That should do the trick.  It sounds to me like you had a backport of X 4.3
installed and then along came X 4.3 in unstable (or testing?) with very
different package names.  I had this same problem just recently when I
decided to upgrade a couple of systems from KDE 3.1.2 to KDE 3.2.  The
approach I took was to remove (using dpkg) all of the X 4.3 backport and
replace it with the new stuff.  Needless to say, this was fairly painful but
did work out in the end.

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