Comment 112 for bug 1451728

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Bernd (bdresler) wrote : Re: [Bug 1451728] Re: [master] kde-config-telepathy-accounts package install error

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Am 26.01.2017 um 19:36 schrieb N H:
> I have experienced this problem as well, while adding KDE to the desktop
> environments on my copy of Ubuntu. As I like XFCE for most things, but
> decided to see how recent versions of KDE look. During installation, the
> KDE accounts config package kept trying to overwrite files provides by
> other packages. Apt-get install -f did not do it's job, and threw the
> same errors. I eventually just grabbed the .deb files using pkgs.org and
> installed them with dpkg --force-all. This resulted in all sorts of file
> conflicts, which as I used the --force-all option, it overrided and
> installed anyway. KDE seems to be working normally. If I need to, I will
> reinstalled the package that got overwritten, once again with the
> --force-all option to make sure it does it's job. However is packaging
> those two packages, need to decided who provides what, or move the
> configs off to a third package that they both could depend on instead of
> conflicting.
>