Oliver, I believe that you have it exactly. I came to grief with similar overwrite problems. There are a number of them in the upgrade, including between kdelibs3 and konqueror. Your analysis that the problem arises from a different location of files between versions 2.1.x and 2.2.1 is bolstered by my experience that the problem didn't occur when I installed KDE 2.2.1 to a new ``minimal installation" Libranet system (on which KDE had not previously been installed).
Note to Ivan Moore (maintainer of Debian KDE packages): this situation is what led me to ask a question in public ten days about the packaging. For users still on the learning curve of Debian packaging (i.e. who don't know about dpkg -i --force-overwrite <foobar>), it leaves them with a broken system. I would recommend some remedial action, but should that be a bug report against the package at debian.org or at kde.org? On 13 Oct 2001, at 15:01, Oliver Johns wrote: Dear Brian, I'm not sure about this, but I think that the problem is that some files have moved from one package to another one in the transition from 2.1.2 to 2.2.1. Thus, from your information below, it appears that /usr/lib/kde2/libkcm_screensaver.la is now in kdebase-libs whereas it used to be in kscreensaver. Since you still have the old kscreensaver installed when you try to install kdebase-libs, you get an overwrite conflict. The solution that worked for me is first to do apt-get -d -t unstable install kde which will just download everything for you. You probably have everything already, so this step may not be needed. Then, cd to /var/cache/apt/archives and do dpkg --force-overwrite --install kdebase-libs_4%3a2.2.1.0-1_i386.deb This will install kdebase-libs regardless of its overwriting a file from the old version of kscreensaver. You'll have to do that for several files, but you can pick them out of your apt-get response below. When the bad ones are resolved, then you can do apt-get -t unstable install kde again, and everything should go through correctly. Hope this is a clue, at least. O. Johns
