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Clinton

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Posted: June 17 2004,16:46

I know this topic should be in another forum, but this forum is busier and therefore I should get a quicker response (I hope).

I've installed DSL, got apt on it, and then did:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

However, when I do a
apt-get dist-upgrade
I get

Unpacking filetuils (from .../fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error prcessing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/bin/chgrp', which is also in package coreutils
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code(1)

Then I am booted back to the prompt. (Please keep in mind I had to hand type all that, so if you see a typing error it is my fault).

I'm sure there is a dpkg command I can use to fix this problem, but I'm still fairly new to linux and thats why I'm using DSL to get me climbing that learning curve. Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Clinton

Grim

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Posted: June 18 2004,12:41

It looks like you still have the busybox utils installed. Are you running from the HD? If so, from what version?

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blanquish

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Posted: July 21 2004,11:35

I've just installed a knoppix in my laptop ... to my surprise I've found the same error when I do 'apt-get install any-program' ... it tells me to execute first 'apt-get -f install' because I have unmet dependencies.

After I do that I get the "broken pipe" message similar to Clinton but with a different package.

Anyone knows how this can be fixed? The more I try, the worse things get ... (needless to say, I'm a complete newbie).

thanks,

blanca.

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