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dukevin
Asked: 2015-10-12 21:13:27 +0800 CST

dpkg error while upgrading distros

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The following is outputted after typing apt-get upgrade. 

Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  manpages
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/795 kB of archives.
After this operation, 284 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 24372 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace manpages 3.27-1 (using .../manpages_3.44-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement manpages ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages_3.44-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getent.1.gz', which is also in package libc-bin 2.15-0ubuntu10.11
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages_3.44-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm trying to make the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, which I think I did successfully, except upgrading causes this error. What could be the problem?

debian

3 Answers

  1. Looks like you mucked around with your system package sources in ways that you shouldn't have and now things are in a very inconsistent state.

    While it may be possible with much work to recover from this, you'll never be certain about the ongoing stability of your system. As such, just install a fresh OS and restore your applications and data there.

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  2. It looks like you (or a previous sysadmin) mixed in some packages from ubuntu and it has a file conflict with a package you are installing as part of the upgrade.

    You can override the error with.

    dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/manpages_3.44-1_all.deb

    This is usually a reasonablly safe thing to do. Especially with something unimportant like a manpage.

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  3. Best Answer

    This fixed it:

    aptitude remove libc-bin

    caused this to happen:

         Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     libc-bin [2.15-0ubuntu10.11 (now)]

     Downgrade the following packages:
1)     libc-bin [2.15-0ubuntu10.11 (now) -> 2.13-38+deb7u8 (oldstable)]
2)     libc6 [2.15-0ubuntu10.11 (now) -> 2.13-38+deb7u8 (oldstable)]
3)     libc6-i386 [2.15-0ubuntu10.11 (now) -> 2.13-38+deb7u8 (oldstable)]
4)     libxi6 [2:1.7.1.901-1ubuntu1~precise3 (now) -> 2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1 (oldstabl
5)     patch [2.6.1-3ubuntu0.1 (now) -> 2.6.1-3 (oldstable)]

    And now everything is fixed enough where I can make a backup and reinstall the OS

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