Re: apt problems of a new user
--- hugelmopf@web.de wrote:
> Being new to the 64bit and especially Debian world,
> I was amazed about the comfortable Debian installer.
> Everything worked smoothly, but now I ran into a
> problem installing KDE.
>
> I added to my sources.list, so that it looks the
> following:
>
> deb
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64
> sarge main contrib non-free
> deb-src
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian-pure64
> sarge main contrib non-free
>
> Now I went to
> --\ Not installed packages
> --\ kde
> --\ main
> and selected kdebase with a +
> pi kdebase +49.2kB <none> 4:3.3.2-1
>
> Now it tells me, that this depends on two broken
> packages, namely:
> pBA kdelibs-bin +3084kB <none> 4:3.3.2-4
> pBA kdelibs4 +28,6MB <none> 4:3.3.2-4
>
> Both depend on "libcupsys2-gnutls10 (>= 1.1.23-1)
> [NOT AVAILABLE]
>
> Did I do anything wrong?
Don't worry, you didn't break anything.
KDE3.4 is in sid ("unstable") currently, not in sarge.
So by adding sources for 3.4 to your sources.list,
you're saying, "I want package x,y, and z." And debian
says "Oh, ok. But I need version2.443 of library Q
from sid. You don't have it."
>
> Another question: Can I run KDE3.4 on Sarge by just
> adding this line to my sources.list?
> deb http://people.debian.org/~killer/amd64 ./
See the above discussion. Short answer: "Not really."
To run sarge is to run slightly older packages, but to
be more comfortable. It's more stable than sid.
Note: "unstable" generally means "changes a lot" in
debian, not "sir crash-a-lot".
~Zaq
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Frank
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