dist-upgrade and scapy broken

[bofh28]

Hi,

I just move from BT4B to BT4Pre (yes I did a new install). I am following the instructions on how to update to the latest packages so I have done:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

which gave me the following messages:
Unpacking libssh2 (from .../libssh2_1.2.2-bt0_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libssh2_1.2.2-bt0_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libssh2.so.1', which is also in package libssh2-1

Unpacking scapy2 (from .../scapy2_2.1-bt1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/scapy2_2.1-bt1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/scapy.1.gz', which is also in package python-scapy
Preparing to replace scapy 1.1.1-3 (using .../archives/scapy_2.0-bt0_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement scapy ...
Preparing to replace python-scapy 1.1.1-3 (using .../python-scapy_2.0-bt0_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-scapy ...

I did a quick google and found I should do
apt-get -f install

which fixed the libssh issue however the scapy issue remains
The scapy messages are:

apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
pymacs python-psyco python-mode pyrit milw0rm pyrex-mode framework3-libs libncp pychecker
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
scapy2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
scapy2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
161 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 397kB of archives.
After this operation, 2597kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 SUN Backtrack Linux Repository pwnsauce/macroverse scapy2 2.1-bt1 [397kB]
Fetched 397kB in 2s (192kB/s)
(Reading database ... 232425 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking scapy2 (from .../scapy2_2.1-bt1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/scapy2_2.1-bt1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/opt/kde3/share/applications/external/scapy.desktop', which is also in package scapy-menu
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/scapy2_2.1-bt1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[purehate]

There is already a thread on this and we are getting it fixed.

[bofh28]

I did find http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bac...scapy-2-x.html
but it hasn't been updated in 10 days. I will be more patient.

Thanks,

[purehate]

I did find http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bac...scapy-2-x.html
but it hasn't been updated in 10 days. I will be more patient.

Thanks,

Ahh sorry, I wasnt trying to be rude I meant this thread.
http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bac...tml#post169917


The problem is one we have frequently. When we decide a ubuntu package sucks or they haven't updated it in a while we create our own. This is tricky because you have to suppress the main package. Sometimes it goes smoother than others :-)

[bofh28]

Ahh sorry, I wasnt trying to be rude I meant this thread.
http://forums.remote-exploit.org/bac...tml#post169917

The problem is one we have frequently. When we decide a ubuntu package sucks or they haven't updated it in a while we create our own. This is tricky because you have to suppress the main package. Sometimes it goes smoother than others :-)

Don't worry about it. I just figured you had a bad day. We have all been there.

That is a problem with quite a few linux distros. They also have short support times. Intrepid is EOL in April. I really don't want to start a which distro is better flamewar but something like Centos might be a better choice in the future. Just my two cents.