kdelibs-data won't upgrade?

[Sean Ryan]

This has been reported at
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-25294.html

Personally I resolved this using :

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%
3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb

KDE 3.4 has been working fine ever since.

But check the above link for discussion on the best approach.

This has also been reported as an upstream debian bug.  See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2004/12/msg00201.html for details


Cheers,
Sean


On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:47 -0400, Steve Haines wrote:
> I've broken the kdelibs metapackage on my Warty/Hoary system (that has 
> KDE added to Ubuntu's normal Gnome. Apparently "default.kde" folder in 
> /usr/share/icons/ conflicts with knetworkconf's ownership of same. How 
> do I get out of this mess?
> 
> Here is the error section from Synaptic:
> 
> Preparing to replace kdelibs-data 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3 (using 
> .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb 
> (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/default.kde', which is also in 
> package knetworkconf
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.4.0-0ubuntu3.1_all.deb
> 
> Failed to apply all changes! Scroll in the terminal buffer to see what 
> went wrong.
> 
> TIA --Steve in Paraguay
>