(Follow-up from experiences yesterday. Today I made a copy of my system to a free partition and did a real upgrade on that.) On Wednesday 18 May 2005 00:07, Frans Pop wrote: > I made sure my Woody environment was fully up-to-date. > The system does contain some unofficial packages: > - KDE 3.2.0-0woody1 (from download.kde.org) IIRC this was the last backport before you had to also upgrade XFree86. > - OpenOffice1.1 1.1beta2-2 (from www.fs.tum.de/~bunk) > - Various backports: subversion, automake, gettext > - Self-compiled from CVS: kdevelop, vlc It also had wine 0.0.20030408-0.bunk probably from www.fs.tum.de/~bunk. This proved to be a major hurdle. Only purging it before the upgrade proved a workable solution. After that 'aptitude install aptitude dpkg perl' succeeded and I could continue with the actual upgrade using 'aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade'. I encountered a few file conflicts from the unofficial backports: Unpacking replacement kdemultimedia-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-dev_4%3a3.3.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libartscontrolapplet.la', which is also in package artsbuilder -- Unpacking replacement kcontrol ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kcontrol_4%3a3.3.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde3/kio_fonts.la', which is also in package kdebase-kio-plugins -- Unpacking replacement kalarm ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kalarm_4%3a3.3.2-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcontrol/kalarmd/index.docbook', which is also in package kalarmd -- Unpacking replacement libkdenetwork2 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libkdenetwork2_4%3a3.3.2-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/apps/kconf_update/kpgp-3.1-upgrade-address-data.pl', which is also in package kgpgcertmanager -- Unpacking replacement korganizer ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/korganizer_4%3a3.3.2-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/servicetypes/dcopcalendar.desktop', which is also in package kdepim-libs -- Replacing files in old package korganizer ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-bin_4%3a3.3.2-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/kconfig_compiler', which is also in package kdelibs4-dev -- Unpacking replacement kdelibs4-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs4-dev_4%3a3.3.2-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libkdeinit_dcopserver.la', which is also in package kdelibs-bin -- Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-5_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.desktop', which is also in package openoffice.org1.1-mimelnk I solved these by running 'dpkg -r --force-depends' for kalarmd, kdemultimedia-dev, kdelibs4-dev, kdepim-libs, kdebase-kio-plugins, libkdenetwork2, openoffice.org1.1-mimelnk I later forced a reinstall for kdebase-kio-plugins and libkdenetwork2. This allowed the upgrade to complete without further problems. The system reboots fine, kdm starts. Major problem is that after I log in (even as a new user), KDE is not started. I get a warning from the sound server that access to /dev/dsp is not allowed but after that, nothing. The system is not hung, but the KDE splash screen is never shown. I made sure that I had no 'old' kde-related config files anymore. An .xsession-errors for the new user is attached. Conclusion: - not an upgrade for the faint-hearted - I still had to upgrade perl alongside apitude and dpkg in order not to have half my system removed (upgrading aptitude without dpkg made no difference to that) - dist-upgrading using Woody's aptitude was not an option either - I'll probably have to purge and reinstall KDE Cheers, FJP
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