Debian apt-get Broken Pipe and Overwrite Error

Aug 18, 2004

MepisBelle (Michael Dill) has a quick fix for those times when apt gives you an error similar to this:

Unpacking libxt6 (from …/libxt6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0′, which is also in package xlibs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

First, issue the following command (Note: that is 2 ‘-’ before force- WordPress is combining them as one line):

dpkg –force overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/packagename-x.x.deb

Then follow up with this cleanup command (Note: that is 2 ‘-’ before configure- WordPress is combining them as one line):

dpkg –configure -a

This will force the install and then cleanup afterward.

Thanks Michael!

One Response to “Debian apt-get Broken Pipe and Overwrite Error”

  1. oracle Says:
    August 30th, 2004 at 6:16 pm

    Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot! :D

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