[vox-tech] Trouble with apt-get

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin Rusty Minden <clownsinc@attbi.com> 
> Ximian was the old Helix Gnome.

ahhh.... that makes perfect sense (note: i don't know what helix is, but
i know what gnome is).

you almost certainly can't have ximian and gnome desktops on the same
machine.

i WOULD say certainly, but debian bends over backwards to do stuff like
letting you have X3 and X4 on the same system.   but you said the ximian
stuff isn't a debian produced package?

so i'd have to agree with rick and say, if it was made by debian, it
might be possible to have both on the same system.  otherwise, it's not
shocking that it doesn't play well with the debian GNOME desktop.

pete

> I have decided not to install it. 
> I just wanted to experiment with it. I will do so on a different 
> system though.
> 
> Rusty
> 
> On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:15 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > rusty,
> >
> > you have to understand that i don't even know what ximian is.
> >
> > but based on package information and your email, it looks like
> > ximian is some kind of replacement for gnome.  in fact, the
> > error you saw is ximian trying to write a file over another
> > file that already exists on your filesystem.
> >
> > while it kind of sucks you got an error, just think about the
> > heartache it avoided -- just willy nilly overwriting a file. 
> > package management rules.  anyway.
> >
> > again, i don't know what ximian is, but it looks like you'll
> > have to uninstall a good chunk of gnome to install it.
> >
> > maybe someone can give you a better answer, but from what
> > little i know about these packages, this is how i see it.
> >
> > pete
> >
> >
> > begin Rusty Minden <clownsinc@attbi.com>
> >
> > > I commented out the line and did an apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > (yes after and update) and all is good again, but I would
> > > like to experiment with Ximian.
> > >
> > > Rusty
> > >
> > > On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:07 am, Rusty Minden wrote:
> > > > I have decided to try to install Ximian Desktop. I added
> > > > this
> > > >
> > > > deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
> > > >
> > > > to /etc/apt/sources.list and got this error after the
> > > > second apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > > I used the apt-get -f install per the error message when I
> > > > ran apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > >
> > > > penny:/home/rdm# apt-get -f install
> > > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > > Correcting dependencies... Done
> > > > The following extra packages will be installed:
> > > >   gnome-bin
> > > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44
> > > > not upgraded.
> > > > 15 packages not fully installed or removed.
> > > > Need to get 0B/84.9kB of archives. After unpacking 1270kB
> > > > will be used.
> > > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> > > > (Reading database ... 93488 files and directories
> > > > currently installed.)
> > > > Preparing to replace gnome-bin 1.4.2-8 (using
> > > > .../gnome-bin_1%3a1.4.1.6-1.ximian.1_i386.deb) ...
> > > > Unpacking replacement gnome-bin ...
> > > > dpkg: error processing
> > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1%3a1.4.1.6-1.ximian.1_i
> > > >386. deb (--unpack):
> > > >  trying to overwrite
> > > > `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-pty-helper.1.gz', which is also
> > > > in package libzvt2
> > > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > >
> > > > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1%3a1.4.1.6-1.ximian.1_i
> > > >386. deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
> > > > code (1)
> > > >
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