kdebase-runtime installation woes
Hi there,
I'm trying to install kdebase-
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The following packages will be upgraded:
kdebase-runtime
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Need to get 1906kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
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(Reading database ... 232567 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1 (using .../kdebase-
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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I'm using aptitude. I've tracked it down in that kdebase-runtime installation scripts are trying to remove the 'kdesu' symbolic link in /usr/lib/
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