I have just upgraded to 13.10 and i can not install any programs

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Published on 2014-06-12T21:26:44Z Indexed on 2014/06/12 21:39 UTC
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I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 last night and i tried to install empathy chat client and this is what I see after the failed down load

installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... 
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(Reading database ... 397719 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-common-lts-raring ...
Removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/xorg/protocol.txt to /usr/lib/xorg/protocol-precise.txt by xserver-common-lts-raring'
dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/lib/xorg/protocol.txt' with
  different file `/usr/lib/xorg/protocol-precise.txt', not allowed
dpkg: error processing xserver-common-lts-raring (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-common-lts-raring
Error in function: 

So how do I fix this issue

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