From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:43:54 -0500 Hi Murray, The outdated 3.5.10 version of kdelibs in the Ubuntu archives (including kdelibs-data) is not compatible with the new KDE3/Trinity version of kdelibs (which includes kdelibs-data-kde3). Please remove kdelibs-data, and note which programs will be removed with it. Then try reinstalling those programs, but with a -kde3 suffix appended. For example, kolourpaint becomes kolourpaint-kde3. Hope this helps! Tim ------------------------------------------- Hello I have the same problem(s) (the sudo problem and now this library problem, in jaunty everything was smooth, but no complain, since I very much appreciate you efforts) however it seems that I can't solve the lib problem for exmaple> sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a-kde3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done kdelibs4c2a-kde3 is already the newest version. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libskim0: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.9) but it is not going to be installed skim: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.9) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). so how to I interpret this message? Then sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop-kde3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done kubuntu-desktop-kde3 is already the newest version. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libskim0: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.9) but it is not going to be installed skim: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.9) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). ----------------------- I feel uneasy about these messages finally: ---------------------------- 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 kdelibs4c2a The following NEW packages will be installed: kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded. 393 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/17.0MB of archives. After this operation, 57.1MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 128989 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_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs4c2a_4%3a3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2_i386.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_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ------------------------------------------------ regards Uwe Brauer