tom@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove compiz-gnome 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: compiz: Depends: compiz-decorator E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). tom@ubuntu:~$ 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: compiz-gnome The following packages will be upgraded: compiz-gnome 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 7 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/162kB of archives. After unpacking 893kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database ... 104175 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace compiz-gnome 1:0.3.6-1ubuntu13 (using .../compiz-gnome_1%3a0.5.5~git20070824+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement compiz-gnome ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-gnome_1%3a0.5.5~git20070824+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/compiz/libgconf.so', which is also in package compiz-plugins Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/compiz-gnome_1%3a0.5.5~git20070824+3v1ubuntu0_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)