Comment 5 for bug 1511301

last thing i tried in terminal before i give up tonight sudo apt-get install fglrx fglrx-amdcccle

and this is what happened which looked like what happened when i tried to fix it in package manager

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
fglrx-amdcccle is already the newest version.
fglrx-amdcccle set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  account-plugin-windows-live libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl
  libdate-calc-perl libdate-calc-xs-perl libmpdec2 libupstart1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fglrx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/22.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 102 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 1320084 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb ...
Moving ati dir to /etc for the fglrx-core transition
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a15.200-0ubuntu0.5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

i hope posting here for help is the right thing. this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD said to come and report if i had issues with additional drivers, but wasn't sure what i should do from that page so i just tried the above. was afraid to mess things up too bad. when i tried that beta from additional drivers years ago it messed things up so bad i only had black screen and it took five hours to figure out how to fix it from the bootup. couldn't tell you what i did that finally fixed it lol.

thanks in advance for your help. this really sucks...