Murray Trainer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed the kubuntu 10.04 / kde3 64-bit distro and am trying 
> to install that require the two libraries above and am getting the 
> errors below.
>
> Thanks
>
> Murray
>
>
> root@kubuntu10:/usr/local/share/icons# 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 kdelibs4c2a
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 8 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/17.9MB of archives.
> After this operation, 62.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
> (Reading database ... 146714 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking kdelibs-data (from 
> .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_all.deb 
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/etc/kde3/colors/40.colors', which is also in 
> package kdelibs-data-kde3 4:3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Unpacking kdelibs4c2a (from 
> .../kdelibs4c2a_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs4c2a_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb 
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/etc/kde3/khotnewstuffrc', which is also in 
> package kdelibs-data-kde3 4:3.5.12-0ubuntu6+r1152788
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_all.deb
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs4c2a_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>

For trinity you are installing the wrong packages, you should be 
installing 'kdelibs-data-kde3' and 'kdelibs4c2a-kde3'.

Please pay attention that you are installing the 'kde3' packages and you 
will have the best kde 3.5 desktop ever. :-)

-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10
Registered Linux User #380263