I have mepis installed on local disk. How do I get to a straight debian install from here? Packages wont install and the dependencies puke as well. the pkg tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb for example ives the following error
dpkg -i tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 73376 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tzdata (from tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing tzdata_2007d-1_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/zoneinfo/NZ', which is also in package locales
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
might just go back to solving my pthread problems on solaris
thanx,
bill