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RE: ubufox and xul-ext-ubufox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob A Morzinski)
Thu Mar 8 11:43:02 2012
From: "Jacob A Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: "amu@alum.mit.edu" <amu@alum.mit.edu>
CC: "debathena@mit.edu" <debathena@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:42:54 +0000
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The dpkg command fixed it, thanks!
-Jacob
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron M. Ucko [mailto:amu@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:12 AM
To: Jacob A Morzinski
Cc: debathena@mit.edu
Subject: Re: ubufox and xul-ext-ubufox
"Jacob A Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Hi,
Hi, Jacob!
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/etc/xul-ext/ubufox.js', which is also in
> package ubufox 0:0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3
You appear to have run into an Ubuntu packaging bug, which you should be able to work around by invoking the package manager with a special option:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb
Please give that a try.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?amu@monk.mit.edu
