On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Scott Raun wrote:
> I'm trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb is
> breaking on me.  Specifically:
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xmh
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb
> E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I've tried doing an apt-get -f install, same problem.
> 
> Now what?

If you want to install anyway:

    dpkg --install --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-4.1.0-6_i386.deb

Etc...  Try doing dpgk --help and read up on what you can do with it.
Look into the man pages, etc.

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