package installation problem

[Gregory Nowak]

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Have you tried:

apt-get -f install

? If that fails, then why not just rm
/usr/share/man/man2/create_module.2.gz, since it seems to exist in the
package you're trying to install anyway? If you didn't do that
because you're afraid of messing up the system, then mv it over to
somewhere else, so if the new package install bombs after all, you
just mv it back into place, and no harm is done.

BTW, I remember a while back you suggested that I consider switching
from testing to unstable. This, and other encounters I've had while
running unstable in the past is exactly why I've chosen to run testing
now.

Greg



On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:44:19PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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> Can someone please advise me what to do? I have been living happily with 
> the Debian unstable distro for some time, but got bitten recently. The 
> package "manpages-dev" was being upgraded along with a bunch of other 
> stuff, and it failed with an error. I tried a number of things, 
> including doing a remove and purge and a new install of the package, and 
> it still failed with the same error. I will include a snapshot of it 
> below. It seems that it wants to copy over a file that is included with 
> modutils, and that is a no no. But now I have lost the earlier set of 
> manpages, which includes most of the development stuff, system calls 
> from GCC, and the like. I am sort of out of ideas on this one, and 
> really miss those man pages. Here is the snapshot:
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Chuck
> 
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