I had the same problem. Shiki's suggestion was a good workaround. After removing the kubuntu-firefox-installer, I installed Firefox fine.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165408 Title: Kubuntu Raring - Kubuntu-firefox-installer blocks the install of Firefox Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I tried to install Firefox by Konsole. "sudo apt-get install firefox" Then I got this error: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package kubuntu-firefox-installer 13.04ubuntu2 Seemingly this error have been reported already back 2 years ago, but it got fixed then. Now it's bugged again. - I can't remove kubuntu-firefox-installer - I can't install firefox - I can't fix the dependency hell - APT is totally stuck because of the kubuntu-firefox-installer file. Basically if you try this, you break your system. (well, it's Beta 2.) x@xxx:~$ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libgconf2-4 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it. The following extra packages will be installed: firefox Suggested packages: latex-xft-fonts firefox-gnome-support The following NEW packages will be installed: firefox 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 14 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/24,8 MB of archives. After this operation, 55,2 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 122341 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firefox (from .../firefox_20.0+build1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_20.0+build1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package kubuntu-firefox-installer 13.04ubuntu2 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_20.0+build1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) x@xxx:~$ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1165408/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
