[Wylug-help] dist-upgrade on debian unstable

[Roger Leigh]

Jason Lander <jason at env.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

> Felix,
>
>> Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
>> dpkg: error processing
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package ghostview
>
> You could try deleting ghostview with
>
>   dpkg --remove ghostview
>
> and running apt-get dist-upgrade again.
>
> I have no idea why ghostview would have a claim on /usr/X11R6/bin but
> Debian is moving to XOrg v7 and the packages are now going into
> /usr rather the /usr/X11R6. This may be a side effect.

ghostview will have installed itself into /usr/X11/bin.

$ dpkg --contents ghostview_1.5-27_powerpc.deb | grep usr/X11
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:08 ./usr/X11R6/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:09 ./usr/X11R6/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    117528 2001-12-30 09:09:09 ./usr/X11R6/bin/ghostview
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:08 ./usr/X11R6/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:10 ./usr/X11R6/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     10379 2001-12-30 09:09:09 ./usr/X11R6/man/man1/ghostview.1x.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:08 ./usr/X11R6/include/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:08 ./usr/X11R6/include/X11/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-12-30 09:09:10 ./usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       454 2001-12-30 09:09:10 ./usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/mini.ghostview.xpm


ghostscript isn't in stable, testing or unstable, so is a holdout
package from Debian 3.0 (woody).  If you remove it, gv is a much nicer
replacement.


x11-common should conflict with ghostview; I'll file a bug against it.


Regards,
Roger

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