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I'm trying to update KDE to the latest version, using apt-get. After spending approx 6hrs downloading the files (using apt-get update, apt-get install kde), it fails with the following error message:
file /usr/share/applications/kde-kcmkxmlrpcd.desktop from install of kdebase-3.1.2-0.fdr.2.rh80 conflicts with file from package kxmlrpcd-3.0.3-3
E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (46)
The full screen dumb is below:
The following extra packages will be installed:
alsa-lib arts arts-devel glibc glibc-common glibc-debug glibc-debug-static
glibc-devel glibc-utils kdebase kdebase-devel kdelibs kdelibs-devel mad-libs
qt qt-MySQL qt-ODBC qt-PostgreSQL qt-designer qt-devel redhat-artwork
redhat-logos redhat-menus
The following packages will be upgraded
arts arts-devel glibc glibc-common glibc-debug glibc-debug-static
glibc-devel glibc-utils kdebase kdebase-devel kdelibs kdelibs-devel qt
qt-MySQL qt-ODBC qt-PostgreSQL qt-designer qt-devel redhat-artwork
redhat-logos redhat-menus
The following packages will be REPLACED:
qt-Xt (by qt)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alsa-lib kde mad-libs
21 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 replaced, 0 removed and 321 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/122MB of archives.
After unpacking 96.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
file /usr/share/applications/kde-kcmkxmlrpcd.desktop from install of kdebase-3.1.2-0.fdr.2.rh80 conflicts with file from package kxmlrpcd-3.0.3-3
E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (46)
Am I doing anything obviously wrong, this is my first attempt at using apt-get/updating kde and I've followed all the instructions.
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