Comment 8 for bug 591886

should be "dpkg"...other than that, thank you! I've been looking at this
thing for 3 weeks, and I was getting tired of getting an error message
everytime I updated.

Chris

On 06/17/2010 07:49 PM, ndsipa pomu wrote:
> There's a relatively easy workaround - you can run dpkg to install the
> package and force it to overwrite the conflict. If I remember, it's
> something like this (from a terminal):
>
> sudo dkpg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-
> firmware_1.34.1_all.deb
>
> You might need to change it for the particular version of the linux-
> firmware that you're getting the error for (I copied this location from
> an error posted above).
>
>