Quote Originally Posted by funny1
Hi,

I did an apt-get upgrade after which I am unable to do any other apt-gets. (I can however do an apt-get update). I looked at some other posts on this site on this issue and tried following the suggestions there, but am still stuck. Whenever I try and install a package it says the following package has unmet dependencies - libntfs5.

So I tried doing an install of libntfs5, it then says

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)

Following this I tried to remove the lib package in /var/cache/apt/archives and do a
'touch /usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0' I have also tried to do an apt-get -f install but none of the above seem to work. I am therefore stuck and cannot download any packages. Can someone help?

Thanks.
From Chapter 7 of the Apt Howto:
"If the installation breaks in the middle of the process and you find that it's no longer possbile to install or remove packages, try running these two commands:
apt-get -f install
dpkg --configure -a

and then try again. It may be necessary to run the second command more than once."