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  1. #1
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    Distribution error

    I've been getting the error below every time i try to upgrade my system. Where could the problem be? And how can I solve it?? Any help will be greatly appreciated

    Error and some of the commands i ran to try and solve the problems are shown below:

    Laptop specs: HP Elitebook 8440p,
    OS: Windows and Kali linux dual booted
    Processor: Intel core i5
    Graphics card: Intel HD graphics

    THANKS IN ADVANCE

    KALI LINUX KERNEL SPECS:
    Code:
    Linux localhost.localdomain 4.7.0-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.7.5-1kali3 (2016-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
    Code:
    root@localhost:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
    Hit:1 http://kali.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/kali kali-rolling InRelease
    Reading package lists... Done
    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:
     codeblocks-contrib : Depends: libhunspell-1.3-0 (>= 1.3.3) but it is not installable
                          Depends: libwxsmithlib0 (= 16.01) but 16.01+dfsg-2 is installed
                          Depends: codeblocks (= 16.01) but 16.01+dfsg-2 is installed
                          Recommends: valgrind but it is not installed
                          Recommends: cppcheck but it is not installed
                          Recommends: cscope but it is not installed
                          Recommends: cccc but it is not installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
    root@localhost:~# apt-get -f install
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following additional packages will be installed:
      codeblocks-contrib
    Recommended packages:
      valgrind
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      codeblocks-contrib
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 177 not upgraded.
    7 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0 B/4,327 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 2,749 kB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    Reading changelogs... Done
    (Reading database ... 362909 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack .../codeblocks-contrib_16.01+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ...
    Unpacking codeblocks-contrib (16.01+dfsg-2) over (16.01) ...
    dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-contrib_16.01+dfsg-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
     trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/codeblocks/wxContribItems/libwxchartctrl.so.0.0.1', which is also in package codeblocks-libwxcontrib0 16.01
    dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-contrib_16.01+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    root@localhost:~#

  2. #2
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    I'd try uninstalling, then reinstalling the codeblocks-contrib package, and see if that fixes the problem.

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