Yesterday i do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, after download every packages and when unpack and coonfigure, apt send to me the next error

~: apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxft-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libxft-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
145 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/60.2kB of archives.
After unpacking 4096B disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 75293 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
i don't know what to do!

i tried with apt-get -f install but nothing happend

I would say if you do not need the package then apt-get --purge remove libxft-dev if you do need it then do the purge and reinstall if all else fails then dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb and since you have had an error then dpkg --configure -a to configure any packages that may have been missed when the error happened.

thanks i've reinstalled and works

I have same problem. Tried all sugested solutions, but:
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apt-get --purge remove libxft-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libpango1.0-dev: Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
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dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 114679 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libxft-dev 2.1.2-5 (using .../libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb) ...
diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev
Removing `diversion of /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h to /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h by libxft-dev'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h' with
different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_i386.deb
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Have any suggestions?

Thanx a lot!

Do the following:

apt-get --purge remove libxft-dev ...

(where ... add all packages which depend on libxft-dev)

This should clear the old libxft-dev and allow you to reinstall the new version without the silly error messages..

Good luck,

-adnans

I was a little nervous removing all those packages using

apt-get --purge remove libxft-dev libqt3-mt-dev libarts1-dev kdelibs4-dev

but I did it any way and re-installed them just fine.. whew..

this worked for me too

It did not work for me, so this is what I did. I did a 'dpkg-deb --info libxft-dev_version_installed_but_needing_upgrade.deb' and used the resulting information to build a fake libxft-dev package having no dependencies. Then I installed that and then did 'apt-get install --reinstall libxft-dev' and that installed the actual libxft-dev package and removed the fake one. It seemed to be the only way I could get around the error. To make fake packages, use the "equivs" package.