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Month: March 2011

how to back out or fix broken trinity install

From: Burlen Loring <bloring@...>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:52:37 -0700
Hi,

The trinity install failed on my system. Now I can't do anything with 
apt-get (see below). How can I fix this?

$sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-default-settings-kde3 kubuntu-desktop-kde3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   k3b-kde3: Depends: kdelibs-data-kde3 (>= 4:3.1.4-2) but it is not 
going to be installed
   kdelibs4c2a-kde3: Depends: kdelibs-data-kde3 (> 4:3.5.12) but it is 
not going to be installed
                     Depends: kdelibs-data-kde3 (< 4:3.5.13) but it is 
not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
specify a solution).


$sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   kdelibs-data-kde3
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   kdelibs-data-kde3
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
278 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/7,612kB of archives.
After this operation, 30.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
   kdelibs-data-kde3
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... 395100 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kdelibs-data-kde3 (from 
.../kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all.deb 
(--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/etc/kde3/ksslcalist', which is also in package 
kdelibs-data 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2.10.04.1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data-kde3_4%3a3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)