said Timothy Pearson:
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| > upgrade on my notebook machine went relatively uneventfully, so i
| > thought it safe to upgrade desktop machine. and boke everything
| > to the extent that i do not have x on the desktop machine at all.
| >
| > am running ubuntu-12.04LTS
| >
| > from a terminal, having added the specified lines to my
| > sources.list and commented out the old tde lines, i did:
| >
| > sudo apt-get update
| > sudo aptutide upgrade
| >
| > due to server congestion i had to run the latter several times.
| > it then specified a problem, to be solved by removal of
| > libcal2b-trinity and libqt-perl.
| >
| > the installation blows up in a fashion too long to list here --
| > i'd have to type it in character by characer, and it includes "25
| > not fully installed or removed" when i went back at it with sudo
| > apt-get dist-upgrade. that command blows up with:
| >
| > dpkg: error
| > processing
| > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub
| >untu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb (--unpack):
| > trying to
| > overwrite
| > '/opt/trinity/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/devices/cdrom_unmount_
| >encrypt.png', which is also in package kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity
| > 4:3.5.13.2-0ubuntu12.04.0+0
| > dpkg-deb (subprocess): data was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| > dpkg-deb (subprocess): error: subprocess <decompress> returned
| > error exit status 2
| > Errors were encountered while
| > processing:
| > /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ub
| >untu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an
| > error code (1)
| >
| > not real sure how to proceed. ideas?
| >
| > thanks.
| > --
| > dep
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| I'd try this:
| dpkg -i --force-all
| /var/cache/apt/archives/tdelibs-data-trinity_4%3a14.0.0-r1231-0ubun
|tu12.04.0+pr138_all.deb dpkg --configure -a
| apt-get dist-upgrade
|
| The first command forces tdelibs to unpack over the old tdelibs,
| which should solve your conflict problems.  I've run into this on a
| few machines myself but it was always due to me upgrading from R14
| preliminary to R14 final, not from 3.5.13.x to R14.

thanks. that shows some progress, but the next-to-last command shows 
many errors, as does the last, which suggests the trouble involves 
the fact that i do not have libtdepim1a-trinity. trying to install 
that, though, results in an error that it conflicts with 
libkcal2b-trinity.
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dep

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