On Sunday 21 of December 2014 02:39:35 dep wrote: > upgrade on my notebook machine went relatively uneventfully, so i > thought it safe to upgrade desktop machine. and boke everything to > the extent that i do not have x on the desktop machine at all. > > am running ubuntu-12.04LTS > > from a terminal, having added the specified lines to my sources.list > and commented out the old tde lines, i did: > > sudo apt-get update > sudo aptutide upgrade > > due to server congestion i had to run the latter several times. it > then specified a problem, to be solved by removal of libcal2b-trinity > and libqt-perl. > > the installation blows up in a fashion too long to list here -- i'd > have to type it in character by characer, and it includes "25 not > fully installed or removed" when i went back at it with sudo apt-get > dist-upgrade. that command blows up with: > > dpkg: error > processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ubuntu12.04. >0+pr138_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to > overwrite > '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/cdrom_unmount_encrypt.pn >g', which is also in package kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity > 4:3.5.13.2-0ubuntu12.04.0+0 > dpkg-deb (subprocess): data was killed by signal (Broken pipe) > dpkg-deb (subprocess): error: subprocess <decompress> returned error > exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while > processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ubuntu12.04. >0+pr138_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > not real sure how to proceed. ideas? > > thanks. I see as a problem that you used 'aptitude upgrade' instead 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. On my test machine I use aufs, thanks to which I could re-testing of the upgrade from 3.5.13.2 to R14.0.0. In the case of 'aptitude dist-upgrade' on my test machine upgrade always go smoothly. Where I used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' there is a problem with tdelibs-data, as in your case. -- Slávek