XFCE broken

[Erik Harrison]

On 2/17/06, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
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> Hello all
>   Running Ubuntu Dapper with XFCE desktop. The latest upgrades seem to have broken it badly. I posted to the Ubuntu list
> and the packager replied it would be fixed...3 days ago. I was also told to "expect" some breakage.
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> I have tried all the apt-get tricks such as -f but it seems some packages aren't ready/available
> In the meantime is there anything I can do to get back my desktop ?

Well, basically, this is an Ubuntu problem. You'll have to ask in a
Ubuntu/Debian specific forum, or install from source, it seems

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> 59 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 22 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 10 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/27.5MB of archives.
> After unpacking 15.7MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 100402 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xfce4-panel 4.2.3-1 (using .../xfce4-panel_4.3.0svn+r19871-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xfce4-panel ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xfce4-panel_4.3.0svn+r19871-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libshowdesktop.so', which is also in package xfce4-showdesktop-plugin
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xfce4-panel_4.3.0svn+r19871-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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> - --
> Cheers
>
> Frank
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Erik

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