Hi everyone,

I've been having problems lately with apt-get upgrading my Debian woody
box. There are some dependency problems with some of the libgnomeprint
packages. I'd like to get some hints from some of the Debian gurus on the
best way to resolve these problems when they pop up. Here's what I get when
I do the upgrade, followed by an 'apt-get -f install' which apt suggests as
a possible remedy. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Tim

copland:/home/wilson# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgnomeprint11: Depends: libgnomeprint-data (>= 0.25-helix1) but it is
not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
copland:/home/wilson# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data 
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/196kB of archives. After unpacking 1491kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 85593 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libgnomeprint-bin (from
.../libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-helix1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-helix1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/gnome-font-install', which is also in package
libgnomeprint6
Unpacking libgnomeprint-data (from
.../libgnomeprint-data_0.25-helix1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-data_0.25-helix1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe/pagd8a.afm', which is also
in package libgnomeprint6
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-bin_0.25-helix1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeprint-data_0.25-helix1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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