Re: What's the status of KDE in testing/etch?
Hi Steve:
Did you succeed installing kde?
I have just installed amd64 eich for dual opterons, X-system is waiting to
install kde. Thnks for informing me
francesco pietra
On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:15, Steve Juranich wrote:
> I just installed a fresh debian system on my spankin' new Athlon 64 X2
> 3800. Things have gone pretty well so far, but I guess I just hit
> everything at just the right time as far as repository sanity goes.
>
> I've tried the past couple of days to `apt-get install kde' with no joy. I
> keep getting complaints like:
>
> coffee (~)$ sudo apt-get install kde
> 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:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdeadmin but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdegraphics but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdenetwork but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdepim but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdeutils but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kdewebdev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> So I'm assuimg this all has to do with the migration over to the main
> debian FTP sites and that testing/etch will eventually catch up. Is this a
> correct assumption?
>
> If it is correct, can somebody give me a ballpark timeline when I can
> expect to be able to install the etch version of KDE for this platform?
> I've tried adding sarge to the repository and also had no luck.
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints.
>
> --
> Steve Juranich
> Tucson, AZ
> USA
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