As an old time xfce user, I love the goodies. However, after I installed them using synaptic, synaptic is broken. Fix broken packages doesn't work. Various apt commands don't fix it, either. I read on an earlier thread where somebody uninstalled then reinstalled the whisker menu, and that fixed it. Not for me.
Here's the error message, which I can't decipher, but devs and more expert users than me might be able to:
Thank you for any help.
Here's the error message, which I can't decipher, but devs and more expert users than me might be able to:
Code:
Preparing to unpack .../xfce4-whiskermenu-linuxlite_2.1.4-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xfce4-whiskermenu-linuxlite (2.1.4-1) over (2.1.4-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin_2.1.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin (2.1.5-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin_2.1.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/etc/xdg/xfce4/whiskermenu/defaults.rc', which is also in package xfce4-whiskermenu-linuxlite 2.1.4-1
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin_2.1.5-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up xfce4-whiskermenu-linuxlite (2.1.4-1) ...Thank you for any help.
jerryc, not to be confused with the real Jerry who developed this distro.