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Re: frustrated
Yes I would say so the only thing I can think of is there are other packages that it depends upon that are not fixed.
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Opps! Double-post...
Um, but I'm missing libxcursor, so if it depends on something else, still why isn't the fixed version on apt?
Is there a page outlining the progress of this bug? This is pretty major cuz apt is entirely broken until this is fixed...I can't imagine this isn't a big deal.
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First:
login as root or use su - to obtain root access
then:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
then:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite package-name_version-number.deb
use the package-name_version-number.deb for the offending package, from your posts it looks like you should use:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb
The force command should be: --force-option
the -- before force is needed...
Note: you may need to use this on occasion (but be warned you may mess up your system if used improperly), maybe upgrading KDE, etc. what causes this is a particular file is needed by two different packages, and included in both so each can function, when the file is installed from one package, then dpkg errors out when you try and install the second package containing the same file.
HTH
~rock
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Originally Posted by
RockMumbles
First:
login as root or use su - to obtain root access
then:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
then:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite package-name_version-number.deb
use the package-name_version-number.deb for the offending package, from your posts it looks like you should use:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-2_i386.deb
The force command should be: --force-option
the -- before force is needed...
Note: you may need to use this on occasion (but be warned you may mess up your system if used improperly), maybe upgrading KDE, etc. what causes this is a particular file is needed by two different packages, and included in both so each can function, when the file is installed from one package, then dpkg errors out when you try and install the second package containing the same file.
HTH
~rock
Sweet! I didn't think this would work, but it did!
Doing this with the correct syntax made apt say "libxcursor1 is not configured" which I said, "hey I can do that" and I did a configure using dselect and then tried the command again and it succeeded. Yippee!
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Thanks a lot RockMumbles for pointing out that small syntax mistake! How big a difference it makes...
I'd also like to say that none of this stuff was intuitive. I think that after I get used to it all I'll be able to spot that "posix"/long option/flags require the double-dash.
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