package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/accounts.google.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-google 0.13+16.10.20160929.1-0ubuntu1

Bug #1685599 reported by Jonners59
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Bug Description

trying to install packages via SYnaptic. COnstantly getting broken packages error messages and repositories not found after selection and apply.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: kaccounts-providers (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-46.49-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-46-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
AptOrdering:
 afio:amd64: Install
 kaccounts-providers:amd64: Install
 NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 23 10:53:39 2017
DuplicateSignature:
 package:kaccounts-providers:(not installed)
 Unpacking kaccounts-providers (4:16.04.3-0ubuntu1) ...
 dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-uVeDXK/1-kaccounts-providers_4%3a16.04.3-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/accounts.google.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-google 0.13+16.10.20160929.1-0ubuntu1
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/accounts.google.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-google 0.13+16.10.20160929.1-0ubuntu1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-08 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu1
 apt 1.3.4
SourcePackage: kaccounts-providers
Title: package kaccounts-providers (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/signon-ui/webkit-options.d/accounts.google.com.conf', which is also in package account-plugin-google 0.13+16.10.20160929.1-0ubuntu1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-04-08 (14 days ago)

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Jonners59 (jonathan-l-harrison) wrote :
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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1622499, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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