Hi all, I was attempting to install KDE yesterday, but it died halfway through. I am now running into very silly problems. When I try it again, I get the following:
# apt-get install kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdegraphics but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdenetwork but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdepim but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeutils but it is not going to be installed Depends: quanta but it is not going to be installed kdeaddons: Depends: kontact-plugins (>= 4:3.2.3-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). running apt-get -f install yields little more: # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kontact-plugins Suggested packages: kdeaddons-doc-html The following NEW packages will be installed: kontact-plugins 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 572 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/52.4kB of archives. After unpacking 188kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 119731 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kontact-plugins (from .../kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /usr/tmp/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kontactknt.so', which is also in package kontact dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /usr/tmp/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Now, if I am reading this properly, it is dying because it's trying to overwrite an existing file but it can't. I tried deleting the file and giving it another go, to no avail. Nothing is working. Also, if I try to remove KDE: # apt-get remove kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package kde is not installed, so not removed You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdeaddons: Depends: kontact-plugins (>= 4:3.2.3-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). So I'm sort of stuck here, unable to go forwards or backwards. I tried all sorts of dpkg and dpkg-deb things, including manually extracting the package, which worked but didn't register the kontact-plugins package as being installed. Is there any way go get out of this situation?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
