Hi, thanks for coming back about this. I tried that & it comes up with the following broken pipe error: The following additional packages will be installed:
desktop-base
The following NEW packages will be installed:
desktop-base
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 214 not upgraded.
241 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/7,867 kB of archives.
After this operation, 20.1 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 454443 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../desktop-base_12.0.6+nmu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking desktop-base (12.0.6+nmu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_12.0.6+nmu1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/etc/xdg/kcm-about-distrorc', which is also in package giants-kde-settings 2023.1-5
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_12.0.6+nmu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Problem still seems to be in the /etc/xdg/kcm-about-distrorc file stopping it. Is it possible (would it be OK? ) to delete this as is doesn't seem to contain crucial stuff as far as I can tell. Tried myself but not allowed as a system file & i'm not sufficiently adept to do it. Do I need to use chmod or something like that to delete it or a command to force an overwrite? Or would that muck up the whole system?