Re: Checkinstall tries to overwrite /usr/bin/ld

[Felipe Sanchez <izto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://checkinstall.izto.org/faq.php

FAQ #1 applies here too. It's a known bug, will be fixed in the next 
release (Which should be out within a week I hope  :) )



On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> I love checkinstall. I am using version 1.6.1 on Debian etch. However, lately
> (and I do not use it all that much nowadays), packages generated by
> checkinstall fail to install, consistently.
>
> I get the following error :
>
> -------------------------
>
> Done. The new package has been saved to
>
> /usr/local/src/graphics/linuxwacom-0.7.7-3/linuxwacom-0.7.7_3-1_i386.deb
> You can install it in your system anytime using:
>
>      dpkg -i linuxwacom-0.7.7_3-1_i386.deb
>
> **********************************************************************
>
> nanak:/usr/local/src/graphics/linuxwacom-0.7.7-3# dpkg -i
> linuxwacom-0.7.7_3-1_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package linuxwacom-0.7.7.
> (Reading database ... 288535 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking linuxwacom-0.7.7 (from linuxwacom-0.7.7_3-1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing linuxwacom-0.7.7_3-1_i386.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/ld', which is also in package binutils
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> linuxwacom-0.7.7_3-1_i386.deb
>
> ------------------
>
> Could someone throw light on what is going on and help me fix this ? I do not
> want to go back to installing packages the old way. It is possible that I
> made a mistake in installing checkinstall on this new machine, but I am
> really getting ticked by this stupid error.