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dpkg problem



I did an apt-get install task-kde this afternoon. I got a message that task-kde would not be installed because some other package was not installable. After hunting down the problem package, I try to install it :

dimmu:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kdelibs2g
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    kdelibs2g
    0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
    52 packages not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/1665kB of archives. After unpacking 5648kB will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    (Reading database ... 50199 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking kdelibs2g (from .../kdelibs2g_4%3a1.1.2-20000425-1.0_i386.deb) ...
    dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs2g_4%3a1.1.2-20000425-1.0_i386.deb (--unpack):
     trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/default', which is also in package kdelibs3
     dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
     Errors were encountered while processing:
      /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs2g_4%3a1.1.2-20000425-1.0_i386.deb

And that's it. Pretty, huh? I am not given any further detail on what the problem is. 

Anybody else ever encountered that ?

Thanks !

-- 

Joel Dinel
kint@videotron.ca



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