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cashville:/home/goren# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpt-1.6.3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpt-1.6.3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
19 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1075kB of archives.
After unpacking 3207kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 101646 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libpt-1.6.3 (from .../libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpt.so.1', which is also in package libpt-1.7.5Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libpt-1.6.3_1.6.6.4-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
cashville:/home/goren#
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