Yes, I was having a pigmentally-challenged-follicle moment. I removed the bastardized cdrecord package and the wodim deb package installed without incident.<br><br>Rather embarrassed that I bothered the list with it, thanks for the help.
<br>Oh, I found out that this system was indeed installed from a Knoppix distro, you were correct on that account as well.<br><br>Regards,<br>Lin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Eduard Bloch</b> <<a href="mailto:edi@gmx.de">edi@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">#include <
hallo.h><br>* Lin Richardson [Wed, Nov 22 2006, 11:57:13PM]:<br>> If this is not the correct place to address wodim package errors, I'm<br>> sorry... will you please forward it on for me or point me in the right<br>
> direction.<br><br>It is the right place.<br><br>> (Reading database ... 145135 files and directories currently installed.)<br>> Unpacking wodim (from .../wodim_5%3a1.0~pre5-1_i386.deb) ...<br>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wodim_5%3a1.0~pre5-1_i386.deb
<br>> (--unpack):<br>> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/readcd', which is also in package cdrecord<br>> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)<br>> Errors were encountered while processing:<br>
> /var/cache/apt/archives/wodim_5%3a1.0~pre5-1_i386.deb<br>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)<br><br>Your system is screwed. I guess that you installed it from an old<br>Knoppix which contained hacked unofficial cdrtools packages. As
<br>workaround, try "dpkg --force-depends -r cdrecord ; apt-get -f install".<br><br>Eduard.<br><br>--<br><miro> ich bin ja auch ein sehr ueberzeugter windoze nutzer<br><miro> ja windoze ist toll!<br>
<miro> samba ist scheisse<br><miro> ich versteh nicht warum ihr das nicht begreift...<br></blockquote></div><br>