Can't install kdebase-libs and kdelibs3

[Mike Beddo <meb@dataventures.com>]

Can someone help me past this problem (see output below)? My sysadmin's
wife decided to have a baby and so he's not here to bail me out.

Thanks,

Mike Beddo

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Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kdebase-libs kdelibs3 
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 266 not
upgraded.
19 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/8797kB of archives. After unpacking 2552kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 46608 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdebase-libs 4:2.1-20001216-1 (using
.../kdebase-libs_4%3a2
.1.1-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdebase-libs ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1.1-6_i386.deb
 (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kmenuedit.so', which is also in package
kdebase-d
ev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: considering removing kdebase-libs in favour of kdelibs3 ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove kdebase-libs (--auto-deconfigure will help):
 task-kdemultimedia depends on kdebase-libs
  kdebase-libs is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb containing kdelibs3:
 kdelibs3 conflicts with kdebase-libs (<< 4:2.1-20010109-1)
  kdebase-libs (version 4:2.1-20001216-1) is installed.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb (--
unpack):
 conflicting packages - not installing kdelibs3
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1.1-6_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.1.1-7_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)