[NBLUG/talk] Wierd apt issue

Steve Johnson srj at adnd.com
Tue Apr 27 08:57:37 PDT 2004


I am trying to do a apt-get upgrade on a box and I keep running into
this wierd error, (see below) any one know what causes this, and
what the fix is?

Its just stuck on this one package.

xxxxxx:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/32.9kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs...
(Reading database ... 62419 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debianutils 1.16 (using
.../debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite /bin/readlink', which is also in package coreutils
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_1.16.2woody1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
xxxxxx:~#

Thanks.

-Steve
 
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