removal of event-rpc-perl

Brent Clark bclark at eccotours.co.za
Wed Jul 12 07:19:02 UTC 2006


Hi all

I seem to be struggling with event-rpc-perl

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The following packages will be REMOVED
   event-rpc-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed
   gcc-3.4-base lapack3 libevent-rpc-perl libg2c0 libmdbtools libufsparse refblas3
The following packages have been kept back:
   dvdrip libdvd0 shrinkta
The following packages will be upgraded:
   anyevent-perl libcairo2 libiterm1 libquicktime0 libtasn1-3 libxiterm1 openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common
   openoffice.org-l10n-en-us openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer po-debconf python-central python-uno ttf-opensymbol xiterm
22 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

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Fetched 80.9MB in 38m10s (35.3kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 71168 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libevent-rpc-perl (from .../libevent-rpc-perl_0.90-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libevent-rpc-perl_0.90-1_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/Event/RPC.pm', which is also in package event-rpc-perl
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libevent-rpc-perl_0.90-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
bclark at zion:~$

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Would anyone know how I can force this.

I tried "--force-yes", but alas this does not work.

Kind Regards
Brent Clark




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