package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-facebook 0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1

[Yerramilli Avanish Raju]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04

$ apt-cache policy kaccounts-providers
kaccounts-providers:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

Expected:
kaccounts-providers should upgrade without errors

Actual:
kaccounts-providers failed with an error, and I was asked to report it here by the bug reporter

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: kaccounts-providers (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-98.121-generic 4.4.90
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-98-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 5 22:31:04 2017
DuplicateSignature:
 package:kaccounts-providers:(not installed)
 Unpacking kde-config-telepathy-accounts (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu1) ...
 dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-config-telepathy-accounts_4%3a15.12.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service', which is also in package account-plugin-google 0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-facebook 0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-26 (404 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
 apt 1.2.24
SourcePackage: kaccounts-providers
Title: package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/www.facebook.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-facebook 0.12+16.04.20160126-0ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1617564, so 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Yerramilli Avanish Raju (yaraju)]

Workaround:

This seems to have worked for me:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/618389/trying-to-overwrite-usr-share-accounts-services-google-im-service-which-is

Specifically, I did this:

sudo apt remove unity-scope-gdrive account-plugin-google account-plugin-facebook kde-telepathy-minimal kde-telepathy
 and then install continued.