[SOLVED] Broken install (files list file for package `x11-common' missing)

From: Andrey Andreev (andreev_at_cs.helsinki.fi)
Date: 08/18/05

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    Andrey Andreev wrote:
    > Some time ago I installed X.org from debian.linux-systeme.com on my
    > Debian Sid.
    > Yesterday I decided to switch to the X.org, now provided unstable so I
    > lowered the priority of debian.linux-systeme.com in /etc/apt/preferences
    > I ran dist-upgrade with aptitude, but this failed, giving the following
    > (among others) message:
    [snip]
    > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.8.2.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
    > trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package
    > xorg-common

    Two packages were overlapping (x11-common from unstable, and xorg-common
    from the unofficial repo)

    Force removing both and reinstalling x11-common fixed all:

    dpkg -P --force-depends x11-common xorg-common

    apt-get -f install x11-common

    Andro 

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science
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