Bug#733512: Error updating mate-polkit-common

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 12/29/2013 05:13 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
>      Updating via apt-get
> 
>      
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>      dpkg error

That happens when trying to update the package when using the MATE
Debian repository at the same time and is hard to avoid since
the MATE repositories contain "mate-polkit" while Debian has split
the package into "mate-polkit" and "mate-polkit-common". We could
maybe add a "Breaks" here, but mixing different repositories is
problematic anyways.

As a hotfix, you can run:

apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -f install

which will allow mate-polkit-common to overwrite files from the
existing mate-polkit package installed through MATE's Debian
repository.

Cheers,

Adrian

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