package account-plugin-facebook (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1

[Joseph Maccione]

failed to install error as far as i knw that is the only problem i had

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: account-plugin-facebook (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 20 08:52:08 2018
DuplicateSignature:
 package:account-plugin-facebook:(not installed)
 Unpacking account-plugin-facebook (0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1) ...
 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/account-plugin-facebook_0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-02 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: wattOS-R10-32bit 16.04 - Release i386
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
SourcePackage: account-plugins
Title: package account-plugin-facebook (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package kaccounts-providers 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1617564, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.