>>>>> "sy" == Steven Yi <kunstmusik@hotmail.com> writes: sy> there sy> were two glibc's, two kdelib's, etc. So I had to do: sy> rpm -qa | sort > out.txt sy> look at the out.txt file and look for duplicates and "rpm -e" sy> them. After killing all of the duplicates, apt-get now works sy> fine. As a slight refinement rpm -qa | sort | uniq -d will list only those entries that are duplicated.