Got error while installing KDE 4.11 from kubuntu backport repo !

[Avi Greenbury]

Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:

> So far no error. But then i tried to install latest kde by enabling
> backport repo and during installation i got this error.
> [...]
> Unpacking replacement plasma-dataengines-workspace ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-dataengines-workspace_4%3a4.11.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04~ppa1_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> '/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/services/hotplug.operations', which is also in
> package kde-workspace-data 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3

The issue is that you're trying to install plasma-dataengines-workspace
as part of KDE and that package wishes to write a file at
/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/services/hotplug.operations, but you already
have that file and it's managed by a package called kde-workspace-data.

Had you already tried to install any of KDE? Which PPA are you using and
where's the tutorial you're following?

-- 
Avi