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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4 Responses to “Debian trying to overwrite add-shell with passwd”

1. mariutsch Says:
   November 4th, 2007 at 7:13 am

   Worked fine, thanks.

2. tim Says:
   January 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am

   I had the same problem. Thank you very much.

3. Minken Says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

   Thanks a lot Erik, it worked like a charm.

4. ewoh7nix Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

   well, it’s very usefull for me.
   thanks guys

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