[Gllug] Installing Linux software (Part II)

[Tom Gilbert]

* James.Rocks at equant.com (James.Rocks at equant.com) wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Shock horror ... I actually managed to get rid of the dependency errors by
> following some of the advice given here and privately and it goes off to do
> its stuff and I get the message:
> 
> "file /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-3.1.so from install of db3-3.1.17-7 conflicts with
> file from package db-3.1.17-13"
> 
> Obviously this is a conflict but what does it mean? Has the package still
> installed (and where does it instrall too?) and if not how do I resolve it?

I would assume that you tried to "install" instead of "upgrade" the new
version of db3. You don't want both installed at the same time, so you
should upgrade. And no, the package hasn't been installed at this stage.

Tom. (debian user, but this brings back memories :-)
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