Re: Problem and workaround with Pedro's lilypond-doc package

[Paul Scott]

Paul Scott wrote:

> Fortunate the workaround is still good but the lilypond-doc package 
> still doesn't install by itself:
>
> Preparing to replace lilypond-doc 2.1.32-1 (using 
> .../lilypond-doc_2.1.33-1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement lilypond-doc ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lilypond_2.1.33-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> address@hidden:~$ dpkg -i --force-all 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lilypond-doc_2.1.33-1_all.deb
> dpkg: operation requires read/write access to dpkg status area
> address@hidden:~$ sudo dpkg -i --force-all 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lilypond-doc_2.1.33-1_all.deb
> Password:
> (Reading database ... 121198 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace lilypond-doc 2.1.33-1 (using 
> .../lilypond-doc_2.1.33-1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement lilypond-doc ...
> Setting up lilypond-doc (2.1.33-1) ...
I see there was more.  To help here is the output of:

address@hidden:~$ sudo dpkg -i --force-all 
/var/cache/apt/archives/lilypond_2.1.33-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 121198 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lilypond 2.1.32-1 (using 
.../lilypond_2.1.33-1_i386.deb) ...
Document `lilypond' is not installed, cannot remove.
Unpacking replacement lilypond ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond.info-1.gz', 
which is also in package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond.info-2.gz', 
which is also in package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite 
`/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond-internals.info.gz', which is also in 
package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite 
`/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond-internals.info-2.gz', which is also 
in package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite 
`/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond-internals.info-3.gz', which is also 
in package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/lilypond/music-glossary.info.gz', 
which is also in package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond.info.gz', which 
is also in package lilypond-doc
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite 
`/usr/share/info/lilypond/lilypond-internals.info-1.gz', which is also 
in package lilypond-doc
Setting up lilypond (2.1.33-1) ...

Paul