I have experienced this problem as well, while adding KDE to the desktop
environments on my copy of Ubuntu. As I like XFCE for most things, but
decided to see how recent versions of KDE look. During installation, the
KDE accounts config package kept trying to overwrite files provides by
other packa
My OS is Ubuntu 16.04, with XFCE version 4.12.1 installed, Thunar
version 1.6.10, which is the latest available in the repositories. All
updates are installed. I'm experiencing this issue multiple times a day.
sudo apt-get install thunar
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...
Both building from source and the version in proposed fix the issue. I'l
stick with the version in proposed then, as when I built from source I
just used make install to overwrite the old versions. I suppose leaving
the system thinking it's still on a older version (according to
apt/dpkg) and havin