[FSUG-Bangalore] sources.list, anyone?

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On 08/15/2006 12:40 PM, Sajith T S cobbled together some glyphs to say:
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> xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values
> to xserver-xorg. (Reading database ... 153139 files and directories
> currently installed.) Unpacking x11-common (from
> .../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb (--unpack): 
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package catdoc
>  Errors were encountered while processing: 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb E: Sub-process
> /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> So I used dpkg --force-overwrite to install such packages.  What do 
> people normally do with such errors?  Is there a place to look up
> such things?

Use dpkg-divert. `man dpkg-divert` for more info. Search the Internet
for howtos on this.
Regards,
BG

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