Bug#381607: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#381607: textlive-common: Trying to overwrite file that is also in texlive-doc-base

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Micah!

On Sam, 05 Aug 2006, Micah Anderson wrote:
> Package: textlive-common
> Version: 2005-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Impossible to install because of this error:
> 
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-common_2005-2_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/README.RU.gz', which is
> also in package texlive-doc-base

Can you please tell me which version of texlive-doc-base you have had
installed? README.RU.gz is in texlive-common since texlive first entered
unstable, so you seem to have had some experimental versions installed.

Please install texlive-doc-base 2005-2 and then the rest.

Best wishes

Norbert

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