apt-get errors...would someone please help me decipher?

[helios17]

I'm just noob enough to not know what to do about this but experienced enough to ask for help before I completely hose my install. knoppix 3.6 hd install. I did "apt-get install nicotine", and this is the output from my attempts to correct the problem. Would someone give it a look and see what I need to do to straighten this out? I apologize for the long output.

thanx

helios


Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
testdisk: Depends: libntfs5 (>= 1.9.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@helios:/home/helios# apt-get install libntfs5
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libntfs5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.
34 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/61.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 122440 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0', which is also in package ntfsprogs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@helios:/home/helios# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libntfs5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libntfs5
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.
34 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/61.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 160kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 122440 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0', which is also in package ntfsprogs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@helios:/home/helios#

[rrfish72]

Try dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.2-2_i386.deb

[helios17]

and I thank you. If you have time, would you explain to me the dynamics of that command and why it worked. I am still learning the command line and am amazed at the power of it. I am also in awe of those who control it.

thanx

helios