apt-get problem

[David J Patrick]

Thing were going great with my (knoppix installed) debian testing/ 
unstable system untill recently,
when apt-get began to choke on knx-alsa.
Now I run into apt-get errors that I'm not sure how to fix.

any such operation (CLI or Kpackage) terminates with;

...
Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/alsamixer', which is also in package knx-alsa
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

error messages suggest "apt-get -f install", but that doesn't help.
I've tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" and "apt-get remove knx-*" without 
success.
I.ve tried renaming `/usr/bin/alsamixer' (no-go) and now I'm stumped.

should I go into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and nuke offending entries ?

ideas ?

thanks,
djp


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