[PlanetCCRMA] Apt-get dist-upgrade errors

[Michael T D Nelson]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:02 +0100, Michael T D Nelson wrote:
>>
>>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
> 

Thanks very much for the replies.

I'll do that shortly Fernando...

Regards,
Michael Nelson