On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Rick Grubin wrote:
> Hello Kip,
>
> This issue came up last week:
>
> > I tried to install NCL under MACOSX 10.2.8 and received these messages:
> >
> > Unpacking ncl (from .../ncl_4.2.0.a028-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/sci/ncl_4.2.0.a028-1_darwin
> > -powerpc.deb (--install):
> > trying to overwrite `/sw/lib/ncarg/ngwww/ngurl', which is also in package
> > ncarg
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/sci/ncl_4.2.0.a028-1_darwi
> > n-powerpc.deb
> > ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
> > Failed: can't install package ncl-4.2.0.a028-1
> >
> > What now?
>
> Two possible solutions for you:
>
> There is a command in fink to overwrite:
>
> sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite fname
>
> where fname is the .deb file for ncl.
>
> You may have an older ncarg package, you need 4.3.1-2 to avoid this
> problem. Try "fink update ncarg".
>
Kip:
Actually, what you need to do is "fink selupdate-cvs" then "fink update
ncl" - the newer ncl package doesn't have this conflict with ncarg.
-Jeff
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