Comment 14 for bug 6980

Message-Id: <20040709082136.5D8442BD3C@arcadia>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:21:36 +0100
From: Anthony Campbell <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: gimp-data conflict with gnome-desktop-data

Package: gimp-data
Version: 2.0.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #258312

I tried the suggested fix for this error:

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data_2.0.2-4_all.deb --force-overwrite

However, it doesn't work. I get:

ac:~:$sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data_2.0.2-4_all.deb --force-overwrite
(Reading database ... 66163 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gimp-data 2.0.2-3 (using .../gimp-data_2.0.2-4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gimp-data ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data_2.0.2-4_all.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-gimp.png', which is also in package gnome-desktop-data
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: error processing --force-overwrite (--install):
 cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data_2.0.2-4_all.deb
 --force-overwrite

The deb file is there, of course.

AC

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

-- no debconf information