Debian trying to overwrite add-shell with passwd
September 8th, 2007
Preparing to replace debianutils 2.8.4 (using …/debianutils_2.23.1_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement debianutils …
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.23.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell’, which is also in package passwd
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.23.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Simply run
dpkg -r --force all passwd
apt-get -f install
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November 4th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Worked fine, thanks.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am
I had the same problem. Thank you very much.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Thanks a lot Erik, it worked like a charm.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
well, it’s very usefull for me.
thanks guys
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Excellent. Works perfectly
December 14th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
this helped a lot, thanks.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Helped me too. Thanks.
February 19th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Ah, that worked. Thanks!
February 20th, 2009 at 1:56 am
you made my day! thank you!
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
thanks. works perfectly
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Thanks! Works like charm!
March 14th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Thanks! Works.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:10 am
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.30_i386.deb
April 8th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Nice
thanx
April 27th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Helped me too. Thanks
June 13th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Thank you so much, works great!
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 am
+1
Cheers for that
August 30th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Thanks! It Works!