Re: [Re: KDE install on potato - still helpless newbie]
Well, I tried the apt-get install kdebase3 kdebase-libs version of your
suggestion: I got the same message at the end: broken packages...
Unfortunately I did not have time yet to get into dselect and try your second
advice, unfortunately I am away for two weeks, but after I am back I probably
will have new questions. I want to figure out this, I need KDE.
I just do not understand that I saw a couple of reviews about KDE2.1 install,
on potato. They just do apt-get install task-kde kdebase, and everything is
*happening*. My system is not tuned in any way, fresh potato install, so why I
get into all this dependencies (no matter what I put in my sources.list)? Or
everybody in this list already had these libraries installed? Or they also
tackled with this problem? The one thing I am trying to see is automatically
solving dependencies, that is why I was not satisfied with rpm and redhat.
As I said I did not give up on it, I still think that this is a lack of
knowing DEbian on my part.
Regards: Viktor (the helpless newbie)
"Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@tdyc.com> wrote:
> > > apt is smart, but it also is smart enough not to make some decisions
for
> > > you. dselect forces the decision making whereas apt is designed to
make
> > > decisions for you. If it cannot make the decisions in a fashion it
> > > thinks is acceptable then it decides not to make the decision...which
is
> >
> > So if there is a choice of two packages which would satisfy dependencies
> > apt-get would give up and let the user decide. If that is what happened
> > above, then of course it's a good thing. I thought apt-get didn't know
> > where to get the two packages ("isn't going to be installed") and gave up
> > because of that.
>
> not completely..there just happens to be 3 or 4 different packages that
have
> choices...if it were one and the deps were decent it would figure it out...
> however with task-kde there are several choices it must make.
>
> Ivan
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