Apt-get :: apt-get returns: Error code 1

Hi, i've just started using linux yesterday, so im quite new to it all

But i found out, that i need to run synaptic to get the 'make' command i need to have, in order to install other programs! But, when i try to get it, i get the error

"Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

Then, when i try

apt-get -f install

i get this:

Quote

root@box:~# apt-get -f install make Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: fileutils The following NEW packages will be installed: fileutils make 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1097kB of archives. After unpacking 2773kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 11018 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking fileutils (from .../fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/bin/chgrp', which is also in package coreutils Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@box:~# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)