[Techtalk] dpkg error -subprocess paste killed by signal

[Carla Schroder]

On Friday 21 February 2003 12:42 am, Alain Tesio wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:12:53 -0800
>
> Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/artscat', which is also in package
> > libarts1-bin
>
> Hi, my own dirty way to fix this is to remove the line "/usr/bin/artscat"
> in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libarts1-bin.list and try again.
>

Nice try, that did not help. I did learn that leaving spaces between the files 
in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libarts1-bin.list generates a completely new and 
different error message! ;-)


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