Apt-get problem ?

[Seneca]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:45:53AM -0400, Jim Taylor wrote:
> I the try # apt-get -f install, which produces this message;
[...]
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs-data
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   kdelibs-data
[...]
> dpkg: error 
> processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.0-2_all.deb 
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-ms-wma.desktop', which is 
> also in package kmplayer
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.0-2_all.deb

The problem is that there is a file that is in both kmplayer and a newer
version of kdelibs-data than you have installed.  Apt has been
attempting to upgrade from kdelibs-data 3.2.2-2 to kdelibs-data 3.3.0-2,
but the common file between kmplayer and (new) kdelibs-data stopped the
upgrade.  Your KDE installation is currently partially broken, and the
file x-ms-wma.desktop is what has caused it, and apt does not want to
install gimp-help-common until its previous problems have been resolved.
The easiest way to resolve it would be to remove kmplayer, but since you
probably want to retain it, you can try removing the line that has
"/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-ms-wma.desktop" from
/var/lib/dpkg/info/kmplayer.list then retrying "apt-get -f install" or
using dpkg to install kdelibs-data with --force-overwrite.

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