apt-get upgrade Kismet error

[Newbie_from_NJ]

Hello,

Newbie here. I've search around for a fix for the following, but can't seem to find anything. Can someone please help? Please forgive if I posted this in the wrong section.

root@modem:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  backtrack-discovery backtrack-enumeration backtrack-network
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kismet
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/962kB of archives.
After this operation, 2388kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 250155 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kismet 0.1-bt0 (using .../kismet_2008-05-R1-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kismet ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kismet_2008-05-R1-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/kismet', which is also in package kismet-newcore
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kismet_2008-05-R1-4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@modem:~#

[m4jh0l]

hi man how are you look go to the Synaptic Package Manager then to the custom filter then to the broken i think you will find it there uninstall it then install again i think that may solve the problem.

[mcurran]

BUMP - suggested fix does not work, and neither does completely removing kismet and kismet-newcore and reinstalling those two packages either...

[Gitsnik]

BUMP - suggested fix does not work, and neither does completely removing kismet and kismet-newcore and reinstalling those two packages either...

How did you remove them. What commands did you type. What thoughts do you have.

These damned packages can be a real pain in the ass to work.

[mcurran]

I reinstalled and this is not an issue with the default kernel. I did a search with Konqueror for all packages name kismet and then deleted manually from the terminal.

[Marko]

Open terminal and paste:
dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/kismet_2008-05-R1-4_i386.deb

[iceman_3233]

Have you tried running fast-track. It also updates kismet newcore.

[jnt13]

Im getting the same issue. I just have Kismet-newcore installed, and everything works fine from what I can tell. Is kismet the old package, and not needed now?

[tantricmeta]

markosd suggestion works but after that do this

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

the usual way for deb users

thanx markosd