ia32-libs, please help

[andmon]

Hello,

I've got Debian sid amd64 and today "aptitude dist-upgrade" returns the below messages related to ia32-libs package
Please could you help me to fix it?
Best,

Andrea

debian:/home/andrea# aptitude dist-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
ia32-libs
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 33.6MB of archives. After unpacking 8,184kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main ia32-libs amd64 20100908 [33.6MB]
Fetched 33.6MB in 1min 41s (330kB/s)
(Reading database ... 247635 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ia32-libs 20090808 (using .../ia32-libs_20100908_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ia32-libs ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_20100908_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib32/libnspr4.so.0d', which is also in package ia32-libs-libnspr4 4.8.4-0.0
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_20100908_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[craigevil]

Either wait until it is fixed or force it.

The following problem arises again and again:
dpkg: Error when working on /var/cache/apt/archives/........dep ....
tries to overwrite ».....« , which is also in ..... package.
and the apt-get dist-upgrade stops.

To solve that one can do also:
dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/..........deb

Please exactly look what stands there after... /apt/archives/... and then next:
apt-get -f install

[peter_irich]

I think that this library is not be in the ia32-libs package.
Try move this *.so in any directory, then install ia32-libs and after that place it back in /usr/lib32.
It is one of the methods.

Peter.

[andmon]

Thank you.
I have tried to move the *.so but still the problem remains, unfortunately.

[mzilikazi]

Thank you.
I have tried to move the *.so but still the problem remains, unfortunately.

Stop moving files and use dpkg as mentioned earlier. That is the way to fix it, not moving files.

The problem is that one package wishes to overwrite something already provided by another package. You'll see this from time to time. I can't recall it ever being harmful. Until it's resolved properly, use dpkg.

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dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_20100908_amd64.deb
apt-get -f install