HELP - tried to apt-get kscreensaver, now I have a real mess!!!
Hi,
I'm new to Debian. I set up my system by installing Knoppix 3.3 to my
hard drive. Upon discovering that there are no screen savers in my
installation, I decided to "apt-get install kscreensaver", using the
KPackage utility. apt-get found another dozen or so dependencies, which
I told it to install. Evidently there is a problem with one of them. I
ran apt-get -f install in a terminal to try to fix the problem. Here is
the output:
root@dads:/home/mike# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs-data
The following packages will be upgraded:
kdelibs-data
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 670 not upgraded.
16 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/6380kB of archives.
After unpacking 3420kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 114455 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdelibs-data 4:3.1.5-1 (using
.../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ...
Replacing files in old package koffice-data ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop', which is also
in package openoffice-de-en
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@dads:/home/mike#
This has made a mess of my system because many of the K* programs won't
work. I though about deleting the
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb file, but since
I don't know what I'm doing at this point, it seems better to ask.
Thanks,
Mike
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