On Monday 19 November 2018 20:05:24 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 19 November 2018 18:39:56 D. R. Evans wrote:
> > I tried to update my debian stable TDE-based system this morning,
> > and received this error message:
> >
> > E:
> > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-96xDOO/031-tdebase-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.6~pre
> >21 -0debian9.0.0+7_all.deb: trying to overwrite
> > '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/kcmdf.png', which is
> > also in package kdf-trinity 4:14.0.6~pre5-0debian9.0.0+0
> >
> > Synaptic is reporting a broken package, but the instructions as to
> > how to proceed in this situation are exceedingly unclear.
> >
> > Anyway. Something is obviously wrong, and it appears to be a TDE
> > packaging error of some kind and I thought I should post here to put
> > the issue before people who understand this a lot better than I do.
> >
> >   Doc
>
> I also got that same message, and now I am stuck because of broken
> packages held.

So I tried again just now since the broken package line disappeared, but 
it got back into that state again so I repeated the install click 
because the version was identical, and tde-base went in and fixed it 
this time, but dpkg went over all 85 updates the second time too.  
Wierd. Now I'll reboot because it wanted to.


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