Re: KDE upgrade: Missing package lm-sensors-mod

[Simon Hepburn <sth@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Felix Oxley wrote:

> I am running woody from a cd set.
> I attempted to upgrade to KDE 3.0.3.
>
> However I get the following dependency problem:
>    Ksysguard recommends lm-sensors
>    lm-sensors recommends lm-sensors-mod
>
> I see from the the Debian package list that lm-sensors-mod is not
> available.

Normally you would install lm-sensors-source and use make-kpkg to build an 
lm-sensors-modules .deb. However if you have managed to get things going with 
whats available in the kernel and are getting sensible output from sensors 
you probably don't want to bother with this.

The reason you are experiencing problems installing ksysguard is probably 
because you are using dselect. The version in woody insists on treating 
recommends as depends. This is a long standing bug that's listed in the 
manpage. Thankfully the version in sid no longer does this. In the meantime 
try :

#apt-get install ksysguard


See /usr/share/doc/lm-sensors/README.debian for more info.

-- 
Simon Hepburn.