Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

On 01/08/05, David R. Litwin <presently42@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth
> repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get
> dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I
> already had. So, I did apt-get install kde. It downloaded all of the
> packages, but there are two problems:
> 
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kdeaddons: Depends: konq-plugins (>= 4:3.3.2-4) but it is not installable
>   kdeedu: Depends: kdeedu-data (>= 4:3.3.2-3) but it is not installable
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> 
> I tried apt-get -f install:
> 
> apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   kdeedu-data konq-plugins
> Suggested packages:
>   kdeaddons-doc-html
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   kdeedu-data konq-plugins
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 4 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/838kB of archives.
> After unpacking 2908kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 90764 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking kdeedu-data (from .../kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/edu_languages.png', which is
> also in package kdebase-data
> Unpacking konq-plugins (from .../konq-plugins_4%3a3.3.2-4_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/konq-plugins_4%3a3.3.2-4_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-webarchive.desktop', which is also
> in package kdelibs-data
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3_all.deb
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/konq-plugins_4%3a3.3.2-4_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I think the problem is here: konq-plugins_4%3a3.3.2-4_i386.deb
> specifically, the percentage sign. I have never seen that before.
> Could this be a glitch of sorts that needs rectifying? And, why is it
> giving me things from 3.3.2? I want 3.4.1, which is why I did the
> apt-get dist-upgrade TO KDE 3.4.1. Is this a little odd? A bug,
> perhaps?
> 
> Thank you Kindly.

I could really use some help with this. I've tried much. Apt-get
simply will not download and installing any thing until this is
cleared up.

Thank you kindly in advance.