Re: KDE install on potato - still helpless newbie

["Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@tdyc.com>]

> Tigger:~# apt-get install task-kde kdebase
> 
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kdebase: Depends: kdebase-libs (>= 4:2.1.1-0) but it is not going to 
> be installed
>            Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.1.1-0) but it is not going to be 
> installed

these are the 2 you have to deal with so try:

  apt-get install kdelibs3 kdebase-libs

and if that works (which it should) then do your apt-get install task-kde

or just use dselect and all of this would be avoided.

Ivan

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