dpkg error -subprocess paste killed by signal

[Carla Schroder <debian@bratgrrl.com>]

howdy,

I'm running Libranet 2.7,  which is woody 3.0 & lots of nice extras. My 
troubles started with upgrading KDE 3.05 to 3.1. I didn't want to, I wanted 
Quanta, and it needed KDE 3.1. So I says well, OK.

I started with

apt-get upgrade kdelibs4

which went fine. Then:

apt-get upgrade kdelibs-bin

That's when the trouble started. libarts1 and libartsc0 won't install. I tried 
apt-get -f install, it failed too. As did 
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb

So I says to myself, I says self, uninstall everything and start over. Well, 
if I try apt-get remove <anything> this same darned unmet dependency pops up:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  arts: Depends: libartsc0 (>= 1.1.0-0woody4) but it is not going to be 
installed
        Depends: libarts1 (>= 1.1.0-0woody4) but 1.0.5a-0woody1 is to be 
installed

I won't bore you with ranting about how installing a single KDE app leads to 
this huge ugly winderz-type interdepency mess. I didn't want to upgrade, I 
just wanted Quanta. My source is
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian stable main

So- any bright ideas?

Thanks!
Carla


# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libarts1 libartsc0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libartsc0
1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 172  not upgraded.
8 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 889kB of archives. After unpacking 946kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://download.kde.org stable/main libarts1 1.1.0-0woody4 [846kB]
Get:2 http://download.kde.org stable/main libartsc0 1.1.0-0woody4 [43.2kB]
Fetched 889kB in 21s (40.6kB/s)
(Reading database ... 147934 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libarts1 1.0.5a-0woody1 (using 
.../libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libarts1 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/artscat', which is also in package libarts1-bin
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking libartsc0 (from .../libartsc0_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libartsc0_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/artsdsp', which is also in package libarts1-bin
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libartsc0_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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