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If I do an apt-get upgrade I get the following error:



Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-firmware
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/23.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 347 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 234639 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-firmware 1.79.1 (using .../linux-firmware_1.79.9_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-firmware ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.79.9_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/ar3k/ramps_0x31010000_40.dfu', which is also in package bt-dw1705-firmware 0.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.79.9_all.deb


I work with a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 and this was my first step after starting up the computer for the first time. What can I do to resolve this issue?



I'm working on a Dell laptop which comes with Ubuntu.


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Try this command on terminal,



 sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.79.9_all.deb

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