[plug] broken Software index

[landerson]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:47:07 +0900
"Patrick Coleman" <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2008 3:04 AM, landerson <lan89295 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >  Gentlemen,
> >
> >  Have encountered the following problem   Software index is broken
> >  Tried to affect a repair by using  "apt-get -f install"  but no luck.
> 
> What errors are you getting when you try to install something?
> 
> -Patrick
> 
 Patrick,

 Get the following messages
 Unpacking libsane-extras (from ..../libsane-extras_1.0.18.16_i386.deb
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsane-extras_1.0.18.16._i386.deb (--unpack):
 E: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man5/sane-epkowa.5.gz', which is also in package iscan
 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (broken pipe)
 Errors were encountered while processing
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libsane-extras_1.0.18.16_i386.deb
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

 Hope it is easy to resolve

 Thank"s for the reply


 Laurie