Re: how to solve the "dpkg: error processing" issue when installing a package?

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Mr. Wang Long <mr.wang.long@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 17:10, 明覺 <shi.minjue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
when i tries to install the gvfs package(it should not be specific to
this package, the error may occur when installing any package), it
shows the following error
-----------------------------------
After this operation, 463kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 127441 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gvfs 1.0.3-4 (using .../gvfs_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gvfs ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gvfs_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libgvfscommon.so.0.0.0', which is also
in package libgvfscommon0
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gvfs_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-----------------------------------
what's the problem? how to solve it? thanks


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This problem also annoyed me today. It was solved by doing this:
dpkg --force-all -P libgvfscommon0
apt-get -f install
yes, i solved it the similar way by "dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/gvfs_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb" :)

Regards,
Wang Long




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