Ubuntu will not fix broken packages

[saleenman]

Hi, I recently tried to install "Spashy" and the install failed. It said that I needed to fix broken packages. So I ran the "sudo apt-get -f install" command and I get this output:

austin@Bartz-PC0:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  splashy
Suggested packages:
  console-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  splashy
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1180kB of archives.
After this operation, 1831kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 164860 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking splashy (from .../splashy_0.3.13-3ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/splashy_0.3.13-3ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh', which is also in package lsb-base
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/splashy_0.3.13-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have tried every thing that I could think of, but still no luck.

Thanks in advance,
Austin

[michy99]

Have you tried

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[saleenman]

Just did, and still no luck this is the output:

austin@Bartz-PC0:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of splashy-themes:
 splashy-themes depends on splashy (>= 0.3.12-1); however:
  Package splashy is not installed.
dpkg: error processing splashy-themes (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 splashy-themes

[utnubuuser]

Try reinstalling splashy

[saleenman]

Tried that, and it wont let me because of the broken package.

[michy99]

Another try:

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/splashy_0.3.13-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get update

[saleenman]

Still nothing, I just get the same output.

[michy99]

What do you get for

ls -la /var/lib/apt

[saleenman]

austin@Bartz-PC0:~$ ls -la /var/lib/apt
total 48
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 2009-07-18 09:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 57 root root  4096 2009-07-16 18:41 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   209 2009-07-15 09:28 cdroms.list
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  8772 2009-07-18 09:56 extended_states
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2009-04-20 09:00 keyrings
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 12288 2009-07-20 21:03 lists
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2009-04-20 08:59 mirrors
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2009-07-15 19:10 periodic

[michy99]

How about this

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.backup
sudo apt-get update