Re: problem in instaling gnome-utils in debian.

[Wang Yajun <yalding ust hk>]

The reason why I want to install gnome-utils is that I found some keyboard
shortcuts are not available on my new gnome system.
But after I install the gnome-utils as you described, I still can not 
configure the
shortcuts.
One of the missing shortcuts is switch windows by "alt-tab".
So how can I reconfigure all the shorcuts?

thanks.

regards,
yalding

Santanu Chatterjee wrote:

> 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
>