[PlanetCCRMA] Apt-get dist-upgrade errors

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:02 +0100, Michael T D Nelson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having difficulties with apt at the moment.
> 
> I switch to root. Then, I run 'apt-get update'. All good so far.
> 
> Now, I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade', which has worked well for me until 
> the last week or two.
> 
> Now, after downloading all of the updates (quite a lot this time round - 
> about 75Mb), I get the following messages:
> 
> "file /usr/bin/sweep from install of lam-7.1.1-7.FC3 conflicts with file 
> from package sweep-0.8.3-2.rhfc3.ccrma
> 
> file /usr/share/man/man1/sweep.1.gz from install of lam-7.1.1-7.FC3 
> conflicts with file from package sweep-0.8.3-2.rhfc3.ccrma
> 
> E: Error whilst running transaction"
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or what has gone wrong?

A new version of a package that comes from Fedora has a binary named
"/usr/bin/sweep". That is the same name of the binary of the Sweep audio
editor that is available at Planet CCRMA. If you are not using lam
(unlikely you are), just erase that package ("rpm -e lam") and things
should work again. 

-- Fernando