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Month: November 2009

Can't remove kde3

From: Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch@...>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:46:12 -0700
I've decided that on one of my machines I can use KDE4, so I'm trying
to remove KDE3 on that system.  One package won't uninstall and it is
messing up my updates:
$ sudo aptitude remove ksmserver-kde3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ksmserver-kde3
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 545kB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 258178 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ksmserver-kde3 ...
No diversion `any diversion of /usr/bin/plasma', none removed
Removing `local diversion of /usr/bin/plasma-desktop to
/usr/bin/plasma-desktop.kde4'
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/bin/plasma-desktop' with
  different file `/usr/bin/plasma-desktop.kde4', not allowed
dpkg: error processing ksmserver-kde3 (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ksmserver-kde3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done


Anyone know how I can remove this package?

Thanks,

Michael