[ubuntu] unable to upgrade 1.0.6 to 1.0.7

[Ken Moffat]

Man-wai Chang wrote:

>As a newbie in debian, what's wrong here?
>
>=== quote ===
>
>
> trying to overwrite
>`..........', which is also in
>package firefox-gnome-support
>
>Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
>Press return to continue.
>
>  
>

Incompatible packages, someone screwed up or the packages came from
different sources? I have seen this several times and solved it using
the --force-overwrite directive, which does force the install. Find the
downloaded package and use dpkg with that directive on it. It should be
in /var/cache/apt/archives/, so as root:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
dpkg -i --force-overwrite mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support

You might check the ubuntu forums for why this is happening. I assume
both old and new packages were from the ubuntu archives, so they should
have worked. But with different package preparers, these things happen.

I don't use ubuntu, but have seen these errors in the past with Libranet
when mixing in debian archives.

-- 
ken

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