Re: problem in instaling gnome-utils in debian.

[Santanu Chatterjee <santanu4linux softhome net>]

 Wang Yajun wrote [on 11/11/03 00:44 +0800]:
> Hi all:
> I am a new debian & gnome user. I am using the debian unstable version 
> and gnome 2.4
> Basicly, I can not install gnome-utils on my system, and I dont know why?
> Will anyone take a look at the following error message?
> Your kindly help will be appreciated.
> 
> ERROR MESSAGES:
> 
> debian:/home/yalding# apt-get install gnome-utils
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> ....[snipped]....
> Unpacking gnome-utils (from .../gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome-character-map', which is also in 
> package gucharmap

Most probably this is a problem not related to GNOME. I think this is
related to the Debian Sid (unstable). I am on Debian Woody, but most
of the packages on my system now are from unstable. I faced this kind
of problem a few times. Normally I solve this type of problems the
following way:

Goto /var/cache/apt/archives/
Find the file gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb. It should be there.
Install it using the following command as root user:
# dpkg -i --force-overwrite ./gnome-utils_2.2.1-1_i386.deb
(See `dpkg --force-help' for more info)
This should force the install.
After that, just to be sure that everything was correctly configured,
re-run the command `apt-get install gnome-utils'

Regards,
Santanu