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apt-get/xscreensaver problem



Hello all

Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following:

desire:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  xscreensaver
Suggested packages:
  xscreensaver-gl streamer
Recommended packages:
  xloadimage libjpeg-progs
The following packages will be upgraded
  xscreensaver
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
343 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2865kB of archives.
After unpacking 975kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 65787 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xscreensaver 4.05-10woody1 (using .../xscreensaver_4.12-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xscreensaver ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xscreensaver_4.12-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/fireflies.xml', which is also in package fireflies
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xscreensaver_4.12-1_i386.deb
localepurge: checking system for new locale ...
Some new locales have appeared on your system:

ne

They will not be touched until you reconfigure localepurge
with the following command:

    dpkg-reconfigure localepurge

localepurge: processing locale files ...
localepurge: processing man pages ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
desire:~#

So what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks very much for your help in advance

Cheers - Piers



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