gnucash 1.9.7 and Debian Etch

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Friday 09 June 2006 06:36, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:
> > Thomas has already uploaded 1.9.7 to sid (thanks, Thomas!). I
> > installed 1.9.6 and 1.9.7 from sid onto my etch system without too
> > much trouble. Lot easier than compiling!
>
> Thanks for the info. Thought I'd try to install this to my Dapper
> system, so I added:
>
> deb     http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
>
> to
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> and fired up Synaptic.
>
> Unfortunately, I got the following error message when I tried to upgrade
> gnucash to 1.9.7:
>
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2006g-2_all.deb: trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Algiers', which is also in package locales
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
Absolutely, this happens when you have to put on tzdata, which is needed for 
libc6.
dpkg --force overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata._2006g-2_all.deb
should do it

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