Debian upgrade woes continue

In addition to my vmware failing to start any longer, I
can not get thru a upgrade (normally runs on cron).

Here is the messages I get:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
inetutils-inetd inetutils-syslogd
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/45.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 180kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 67674 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking inetutils-syslogd (from .../inetutils-syslogd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-syslogd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/logger.1.gz', which is also in package bsdutils
Unpacking inetutils-inetd (from .../inetutils-inetd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-inetd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/inetd.8.gz', which is also in package netkit-inetd
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-syslogd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/inetutils-inetd_2%3a1.4.2+20030703-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.

Normally, I just wait a few days, do another 'apt-get update', and the offending
packages have been "fixed" and I continue on my merry way. This paticualr
message has persisted for over a week. And, I still have no vmware (gcc problem?).

Any ides on how to fix?

v/r
-mike