package account-plugin-google (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1

[Luke picciau]

Not quite sure what triggered this bug

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: account-plugin-google (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-51.54~16.04.1-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-51-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 13 22:35:12 2017
DuplicateSignature:
 package:account-plugin-google:(not installed)
 Unpacking account-plugin-google (0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1) ...
 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/account-plugin-google_0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-13 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
 apt 1.2.20
SourcePackage: account-plugins
Title: package account-plugin-google (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/providers/google.provider', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Luke picciau (luke-b-picciau)]

Looks like this could have been caused by installing KDE and then gnome

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.