ok found the problem and the workaround for this. somehow, someway, during the install of kshishen and a few other kde packages, there was a circular reference of the following file:
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common with ../klog/common which had a link back to the ../common. once I get rid of the circular link, everything installed. -- kdelibs5 will not install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs