I should be fixed by now, please run "apt update" and try again.Thanks!

The same situation
Unpacking kali-themes (2023.1.5) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kali-themes_2023.1.5_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/etc/skel/.face', which is also in package desktop-base 12.0.4+kali1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kali-themes_2023.1.5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Try: apt update && apt install -y desktop-base That should get you version 12.0.4+kali2 of desktop-base. After that you can install kali-desktop-xfce.

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You forgot sudo in front of 'apt install', ie sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y desktop-base

But “sudo” was done
Please see a screenshot carefully

I see very well, « unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock, are you root? ». You need to add sudo before apt install. When you chain actions with "&&", you need to add sudo for every action, ie. " sudo A && sudo B && sudo C ", that's how it works.

sorry, my bad, now done with sudo for both sides

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dears, please help me )

Did you try "sudo apt --fix-broken install" as suggested?

Duplicate of 0008198 ?

sudo apt --fix-broken install

Unpacking kali-themes (2023.1.5) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kali-themes_2023.1.5_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/etc/skel/.face', which is also in package desktop-base 12.0.4+kali1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kali-themes_2023.1.5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

try sudo apt --fix-broken install -o dpkg::options::=--force-overwrite -

I'm closing this as it's now fixed in kali-rolling