once again apt-get problem

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Solved with dpkg --force-overwrite:

Sure that's fairly common. apt let's you decide to overwrite a file instead of doing it of its own accord which I feel is a good thing....

But the point is that apt doesn't have an option to let you overwrite the file. None of the 'fixes' available from apt would solve the problem, I had to go to dpkg to do it.
Apt is just a front end for dpkg anyway.

I'm done with apt-get. I was always having problems with the sources.list file and found apt-spy helpful for a while.

Now, I just look for whatever package I need on http://packages.debian.org and downloaded it and install it with kpackage!

Regards,
AJG

kpackage also uses dpkg and it still depends on your sources.list file which you must keep up to date (tip from somewhere in these forums...use 'dselect update' instead of 'apt-get update', dselect & apt maintain separate data file, dselect update keeps them in sych but apt-get update doesn't).

If you run into a conflict problem such as the one above, you will probably still have to fix it manually, which goes back to my original statement,"apt is seldom able to fix it's own problems".

Kpackage more than just a front-end for dpkg, however as it's actually a reasonably capable package manager for rpm's. I use it a lot, primarily as a package browser 'cause it also gives descriptions of the packages. I have also tried synaptic but haven't found it to be much advantage over kpackage.

As for KDE packages, yes there are a lot of them and many are just alternatives to others...noatun & kaboodle as alternatives to xmms for instance. So far I have been using unstable without any problems. One of the real advantages to apt-get & debian KDE packages is that you can install & remove 'pieces' of the package, for instance if you want kpat you don't have to take the whole kdegames set just to get it. Not so with Mandrake, it was all or nothing. Important to me because I have a limited space system.