Ive seen the question come up befor but the possible solutions for it that have been mentioned so far did not seem to do anything for me. I already tried the following :

Xterminal :
sudo gainroot
$ dpkg --force-all -r libsdl-ttf2.0-0
( Then i get /bin/sh: $: not found)

anyone who can help out so i can update mupen and other progs?

Thanks in advance.

Did you download the file to yuor N900 and cd'ing to the directory where you put it, before doing that command in xterm?

heh no i guess i did not, sorry im such a noob . could you give me a step by step tutorial on how to do this?

Download file to /home/user/MyDocs (N900 in native file manager) Asuming you have rootsh installed, if no just open app mngr and download rootsh from there (extras or devel) and then open xterm:

sudo gainroot 'enter'

cd /home/user/MyDocs 'enter'

dpkg -i libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0+0m5_armel 'enter'

That should do the trick it did for me when i had that problem. If not just try your own command with the file

Link to file:
http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...+0m5_armel.deb

i think i did what you said

1) check for rootsh
2) sudo gainroot
cd /home/user/MyDocs
/home/user/MyDocs # dpkg -i libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0+0m5_armel.deb


But then i get this error

shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/home/user # cd /home/user/MyDocs
/home/user/MyDocs # dpkg -i libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0+0m5_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 38274 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libsdl-ttf2.0 (from libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0+0m5_armel.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0+0m5_armel.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0.6.3', which is also in package libsdl-ttf2.0-0
Errors were encountered while processing:
libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0+0m5_armel.deb
/home/user/MyDocs #


did i do something wrong? i placed the deb file in the main directory of the n900, this is the mydocs directory right?

take a look here http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=777400

try running

dpkg -i --force-all libsdl-ttf2.0_2.0.9-1osso0\+0m5_armel.deb

its the equivalent of using a hammer when your car wont start.

I hope to have a solution for that problem in a day or two, so unless you're really anxious, don't do anything you might regret

hehe ok thanks for all the info guys. I guess i can wait a few more days before i install mupen etc. Attila is it ok if I send you a pm next week if by then you figured out how to fix this problem?

so any news on this?