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Apt Broken Package Problems



I am using Sid 2.6.7 and I seem to be having some broken package
problems.  The funny thing is that this is a week old, and noone else
seems to have submitted a bug report.  This has completely handicapped
apt, so I can not use it right now.  Below is the return of apt-get
install -f

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs-bin perl-base
The following packages will be upgraded:
kdelibs-bin perl-base
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 299 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1617kB of archives.
After unpacking 254kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 130760 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace perl-base 5.8.4-2 (using
..../perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl-base ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl/5.8', which is also in package
libclass-multimethods-perl
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is it a broken package, or somthing else?

Thanks!

Sincerely,
Ryan Waye



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