apt-get -f install question..

From: Ishwar Rattan (ishwar_at_pali.cps.cmich.edu)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:53:34 -0400 (EDT)
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    After trying to install scm (scheme interpreter) failure, apt-get
    suggested to try 'apt-get -f install' but this also resulted in error
    (message shown below). Is there a way out?

    -ishwar
    --------
    apt-get -f install
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following extra packages will be installed:
      libxt6
      The following packages will be upgraded:
        libxt6
        1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 699 not upgraded.
        61 not fully installed or removed.
        Need to get 0B/312kB of archives.
        After unpacking 61.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
        Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
        Preconfiguring packages ...
        (Reading database ... 113233 files and directories currently installed.)
        Preparing to replace libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 (using .../libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb) ...
        Unpacking replacement libxt6 ...
        dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
         trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package xnview

    Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/libxt6_4.3.0.dfsg.1-8_i386.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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