I have the same problem. My system is Kubuntu, upgraded from 8.04 directly to 9.04 beta. Yesterday I did a upgrade and found this error. I tried "dpkg --configure -a", but nothing happenned.
The log: ~/tmp$ sudo aptitude upgrade W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following packages will be upgraded: kdebase-runtime 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1906kB of archives. After unpacking 8192B will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 222050 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.1-0ubuntu2 (using .../kdebase-runtime_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kdebase-runtime ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu', which is also in package kdesudo dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done ~/tmp$ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdebase-runtime The following packages will be upgraded: kdebase-runtime 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1906kB of archives. After this operation, 8192B disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 222050 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.1-0ubuntu2 (using .../kdebase-runtime_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kdebase-runtime ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu', which is also in package kdesudo dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- package kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: conflicts with kdesudo (it tries to owerwrite file /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-runtime in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
