Broken package in Linux Mint (ubuntu) during upgrade to 2.7.8

[Richard Laager]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 22:18 -0700, Gerald Monks wrote:
> This is the error message I'm getting (and apparently a lot of others as well):
> 
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-data_1%3a2.7.8-1~getdeb1_all.deb:
> trying to overwrite
> '/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/facebook.png', which is also
> in package pidgin-facebookchat 1.67.1-1
> 
> I now have a broken package. How do I fix this?

Remove pidgin-facebookchat.

Richard
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