Error during dist-upgrade

[twigsby]

I get the following error near to the end of installation...

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1.2ubuntu1_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite `/lib64', which is also in package lsb-core

I've tried installing in recovery mode and after killing Gnome, but I get the same error. What am I doing wrong? :-?

[ape]

You've done nothing wrong. This would be a bug in one of these two components as they are both attempting to provide the lib64 directory. What you can do is manually (as root or with sudo) do the following:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dpkg -i --force-overwrite base-files_3.1.2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

This should allow the installation of that component to succeed. Once you have done this, try your Synaptic dist-upgrade.

[twigsby]

You've done nothing wrong. This would be a bug in one of these two components as they are both attempting to provide the lib64 directory. What you can do is manually (as root or with sudo) do the following:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dpkg -i --force-overwrite base-files_3.1.2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

This should allow the installation of that component to succeed. Once you have done this, try your Synaptic dist-upgrade.
Ah, thank you. This worked a treat.