When upgrading Breezy, it appears that xlibs-data is attempting to overwrite
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb, but fails because the file also belongs to the libx11-6
package. Output from apt follows:
djg@alaska:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libx11-6 xlibs-data
The following packages will be upgraded:
libx11-6 xlibs-data
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 172 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1368kB of archives.
After unpacking 430kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 87697 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xlibs-data 6.8.2-24 (using .../xlibs-data_6.8.2-32_all.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement xlibs-data ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-data_6.8.2-32_all.deb (--un
pack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb', which is also in package libx11-6
dpkg: considering removing xlibs-data in favour of libx11-6 ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove xlibs-data (--auto-deconfigure will help):
libx11-6 depends on xlibs-data
xlibs-data is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding .../libx11-6_1%3a6.2.1+cvs.20050615-3_i386.deb containing libx11 -6:
libx11-6 conflicts with xlibs-data (<< 6.8.2-25)
xlibs-data (version 6.8.2-24) is installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_1%3a6.2.1+cvs.20050615-3
_i386.deb (--unpack):
conflicting packages - not installing libx11-6
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-data_6.8.2-32_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_1%3a6.2.1+cvs.20050615-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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