Please see my comment attached to the bug

Brian Gurtler wrote:
> I've reported the bug to xscreensaver and they said that it's a
> backports issue
> http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13299
> 
> John Dong wrote:
> 
> 
>>Use dpkg --install --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives
>>/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb to install the package.
>>
>>Unfortunately, two different versions of Electricsheep are present in
>>two package (xscreensaver and electricsheep) -- APT doesn't like to
>>assume that you'd want to overwrite existing files, so drops out at
>>this error.
>>
>>this is an upstream packaging bug that can't be solved via the
>>Backports team. If it really bothers you, file a bug against either
>>electricsheep or xscreensaver in Ubuntu's Bugzilla.
>>
>>
>>On 9/9/05, *Brian Gurtler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>    could someone do a backport of this?
>>    the version currently in backports [2.6.2] hasn't ever worked do
>>    to some
>>    kind of error..
>>
>>    Unpacking electricsheep (from
>>    .../electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb) ...
>>    dpkg: error processing
>>    /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
>>    (--unpack):
>>    trying to overwrite
>>    `/usr/share/xscreensaver/config/electricsheep.xml',
>>    which is also in package xscreensaver
>>    dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>>    /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb
>>    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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