[Techtalk] Debian apt and dpkg help, please

[Carla Schroder]

O Mighty Debian Guruz,

I'm still getting the hang of apt-get and dpkg. I ran apt-get dist-upgrade, 
just to see what would happen. It massively upgraded KDE, and a few other 
things. KDE came through the process with a few glitches, the infamous 
"subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1" error. The 
exact error message: 


Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libartsc0_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So I tried apt-get -f install, which produced the same error. So I ran apt-get 
clean, then apt-get -f install. This time it downloaded a bunch of new KDE 
packages, to no avail:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/artscat', which is also in package libarts1-bin
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking libartsc0 (from .../libartsc0_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/libartsc0_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/artsdsp', which is also in package libarts1-bin
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libartsc0_1.1.3-0woody1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Googling on these errors returns a lot of people with questions, but few with 
answers. Any bright ideas?

thanks!
Carla

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