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