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how to get past an apt dependency problem?



I can't get past a dependency problem related to the unstable version. I 
think I asked for the latest konqueror, or something... in any case I 
upgraded several components of my kde. Now I have this dependency problem, 
and I don't know how to fix. it. How can I (a) fix the problem, (b) have apt 
ignore it so I can install other software?

copernicus:/home/cmj# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  kdebase-libs 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ksysctrl 
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 553 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1649kB of archives. After unpacking 127kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 111792 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdebase-libs 4:2.2.0-0.3beta1-1 (using 
.../kdebase-libs_2.2
.2-13_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdebase-libs ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_2.2.2-13_i386.deb 
(-
-unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/applnk/Settings/Sound/arts.desktop', which 
is a
lso in package kdebase
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_2.2.2-13_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



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