Long story short, I decided to try to install the kde-desktop with aptitude as a tutorial online suggested. However, some of the packages couldn't be installed. As many times as I try, I can't get rid of these packages or install them although KDE is working. I think my terminal tells the story better:
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I've had this problem with mythtv before, and was unable to resolve it.
Chip's Terminal wrote:
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patrick@Chipmaster:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Get:1 http://www.getautomatix.com edgy Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://www.getautomatix.com edgy/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://www.getautomatix.com edgy Release [6733B]
Get:3 http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://quozl.netrek.org ./ Release.gpg
Ign http://quozl.netrek.org ./ Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://quozl.netrek.org ./ Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial Release
Ign http://wine.lowvoice.nl edgy Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://wine.lowvoice.nl edgy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://quozl.netrek.org ./ Packages
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Get:6 http://www.getautomatix.com edgy/main Packages [750B]
Ign http://people.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg
Ign http://people.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://quozl.netrek.org ./ Packages
Hit http://wine.lowvoice.nl edgy Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com dapper-commercial/main Packages
Ign http://people.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_US
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://people.ubuntu.com edgy Release
Ign http://wine.lowvoice.nl edgy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://people.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://wine.lowvoice.nl edgy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://people.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release
Hit http://people.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages
Hit http://people.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Sources
Fetched 7677B in 1s (4680B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
patrick@Chipmaster:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ksysguardd: Depends: libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 (>= 0.6.13) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
patrick@Chipmaster:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/30.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 102kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 220024 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 (from .../libavahi-compat-libdnssd1_0.6.13-2ubuntu2.4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libavahi-compat-libdnssd1_0.6.13-2ubuntu2.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libdns_sd.so.1', which is also in package bonjour
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libavahi-compat-libdnssd1_0.6.13-2ubuntu2.4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I've had this problem with mythtv before, and was unable to resolve it.