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When I use sudo apt-get -f install in terminal, the following happens:

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 237694 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-tools-3.16.0-31_3.16.0-31.41_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-tools-3.16.0-31 (3.16.0-31.41) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-tools-3.16.0-31_3.16.0-31.41_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libcpupower.so.3.16.0-31', which is also in package linux-lts-utopic-tools-3.16.0-31 3.16.0-31.41~14.04.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-tools-3.16.0-31_3.16.0-31.41_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
muru
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Bryan Masters
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If you are running 14.10, you should not have linux-lts-utopic-tools-3.16.0-31. Where did you get that anyway?

Lesson one: use your package manager.

Unlike windows, where you search for and download exe files to install programs or applications, in linux you use the package manager (apt-get).

Open a terminal and execute the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get purge linux-lts-utopic-tools-3.16.0-31 linux-tools-3.16.0-31
sudo apt-get install linux-tools-generic

If you need to search for software to install, use the synaptic-package-manager

sudo apt-get install synaptic

to run synaptic:

sudo synaptic

to do a command line search for available software:

apt-cache search linux-tools

to narrow the search use grep:

apt-cache search linux-tools | grep tools

to uninstall software, use apt-get purge:

sudo apt-get purge linux-tools-generic

to install, use apt-get install:

sudo apt-get install linux-tools-generic

to reinstall, use apt-get install --reinstall:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-tools-generic

to install basic updates

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

to install system updates

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
mchid
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Try to remove the problematic package

sudo apt-get remove linux-tools-3.16.0-31

then fix the packages

sudo apt-get -f

and then install it again

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install linux-tools-generic

Yuri
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