HELP - tried to apt-get kscreensaver, now I have a real mess!!!

From: Mike Moum (mmoum_at_woh.rr.com)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Hi,

    I'm new to Debian. I set up my system by installing Knoppix 3.3 to my
    hard drive. Upon discovering that there are no screen savers in my
    installation, I decided to "apt-get install kscreensaver", using the
    KPackage utility. apt-get found another dozen or so dependencies, which
    I told it to install. Evidently there is a problem with one of them. I
    ran apt-get -f install in a terminal to try to fix the problem. Here is
    the output:

    root@dads:/home/mike# apt-get -f install
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following extra packages will be installed:
      kdelibs-data
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      kdelibs-data
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 670 not upgraded.
    16 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/6380kB of archives.
    After unpacking 3420kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    (Reading database ... 114455 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace kdelibs-data 4:3.1.5-1 (using
    .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb) ...
    Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ...
    Replacing files in old package koffice-data ...
    dpkg: error processing
    /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb (--unpack):
     trying to overwrite
    `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop', which is also
    in package openoffice-de-en
    dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    root@dads:/home/mike#

    This has made a mess of my system because many of the K* programs won't
    work. I though about deleting the
    /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.2.2-2_all.deb file, but since
    I don't know what I'm doing at this point, it seems better to ask.

    Thanks,
    Mike 

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