help with upgrade error (fwd)

[dinakar desai <Desai.Dinakar@mayo.edu>]

Hello Everyone:

When I try to use apt-get upgrade on potato i get the following message. I
would appreciate, if someone could help

(Reading database 18738 files and directories currently installed.)
preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using
.../base-files_2.1.22_all.deb) ....
unpacking replacement base-files ...
dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/inputrc', which is also in package
libreadlineg2
 Errors were uncountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb
 E:sub-process returned an error code (1)

Thank you for your help.

With best regards

Dinakar