problems with kdelibs3

[Michael Sullivan <garuda@wi.rr.com>]

I currently am running Libranet 1.90, based on Debian Potato

It comes with KDE2.1, and I wanted to upgrade to 2.1.1, but ran into 
difficulty.......

With apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, I consistently have a large number 
of KDE packages held back.  So I tried to install them using apt-get install


I tried to install kdebase-libs
it wanted kdelibs3, which I tried to install :

manjushri:/home/michael# apt-get install kdelibs3
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.
 
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
 
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kdelibs3: Depends: libssl096 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages



So, i tried to apt-get install libssl096- this is what happened:

Package libssl096 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package libssl096 has no installation candidate


I'm a Debian newbie...
Does this mean there is a problem with the build of a package - perhaps a 
typo or something?  When I check the database of all Debian packages for 
libssl*  I see:

         Debian package search results


Release  Quality Package (size)

stable   100%    libssl09-dev 0.9.4-5   (542.9k) 
         SSL development libraries

testing          46%     libssl095a 0.9.5a-6   (391.3k) 
         SSL shared libraries (old version)

unstable 46%     libssl095a 0.9.5a-6   (391.3k) 
         SSL shared libraries (old version)

testing          37%     libssl-dev 0.9.6-2   (652.6k) 
         SSL development libraries, header files and documentation

unstable 37%     libssl-dev 0.9.6a-1   (749.5k) 
         SSL development libraries, header files and documentation

stable   12%     libssl09 0.9.4-5   (350.2k) 
         SSL shared libraries

testing          12%     libssl09 0.9.4-6   (350.6k) 
         SSL shared libraries (old version)

unstable 12%     libssl09 0.9.4-6   (350.6k) 
         SSL shared libraries (old version)

testing          5%      libssl0.9.6 0.9.6-2   (446.4k) 
         SSL shared libraries

unstable 5%      libssl0.9.6 0.9.6a-1   (451.5k) 
         SSL shared librariesResponses 1-10 shown, out of total of 10.