Re: 178 days and counting
David,
Install Red Hat, Mandrake or SuSE - it's a lot less complicated and they
properly support KDE 3.
On Monday 30 September 2002 02:32, David Pastern wrote:
> Well that was shortlived...this is the result of apt-get update:
>
> maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get update
> Hit http://people.debian.org ./ Packages
>
> Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages
>
> Hit http://people.debian.org ./ Release
>
> Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
>
> Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release
>
> Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
>
> Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Sources
>
> Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Packages
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Release
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Sources
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable/main Release
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd
> kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit
> kit
> kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror
> konsole kontour korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpresenter kruler
> kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword
> secpolicy
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
>
> So........I ran apt-get upgrade with the following messages:
>
> maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> ark karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase kdepasswd
> kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract kghostview khexedit kiconedit
> kit
> kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror
> konsole kontour korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpresenter kruler
> kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword
> secpolicy
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
>
> So I then tried apt-get dist-upgrade, which reading the man page for
> apt-get states:
>
> dist-upgrade
> dist-upgrade, in addition to performing the func�
> tion of upgrade, also intelligently handles chang�
> ing dependencies with new versions of packages;
> apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system,
> and it will attempt to upgrade the most important
> packages at the expense of less important ones if
> necessary. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains
> a list of locations from which to retrieve desired
> package files.
>
> Now this is what is said by my Debian system when I run the apt-get
> dist-upgrade command:
>
> maxus:/home/maxus# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> kab kde kdebase kdebase-audiolibs kdebase-doc kdebase-libs kdelibs3
> kdelibs3-bin kdepim-libs kpm libarts libkdenetwork1 libkmid libkonq3
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> kaddressbook kalarmd kappfinder karbon kcontrol kdcop kdebase-bin
> kdebugdialog kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 kdeprint kdesktop
> khelpcenter
> khotkeys kicker kioslave klipper kmenuedit konqueror-nsplugins kpager
> kpersonalizer ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ktip kwin kxkb libart-2.0-2
> libarts1 libarts1-qt libasound2 libcupsys2 libkcal2 libkdenetwork2
> libkgantt0 libkonq4 libqt3 libqt3-mt libsensors1 python2.2
> 49 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 14 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 45.6MB/51.5MB of archives. After unpacking 40.6MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> I answered yes to this, and it asked me to provide cdrom disk 1, and at
> this point I got nervous. Why? Note that where it says the following
> packages will be REMOVED it says kdelibs3. Is that not for kde 3? Or is
> that also present for kde 2.2. Looking at the package lists on the Debian
> site, it does have a kdelibs3 for stable, so i'm wondering if all is ok,
> and I can provide the said cdrom and let it read it and do its work. After
> my previous troubles i'm just very nervous and hesitant and untrusting of
> it all.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Pastern
> To: Thomas Schoepf; Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com; David Pastern
> Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Sent: 30/09/2002 11:17
> Subject: RE: 178 days and counting
>
>
> Ignore post - I just tried removing the stable main and it's working
> now.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Pastern
> To: Thomas Schoepf; Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com; David Pastern
> Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Sent: 30/09/2002 11:14
> Subject: RE: 178 days and counting
>
>
> mm well as I am stubborn [I hate losing, especially to a goddamn stupid
> machine] - i've reinstalled debian (to ensure that anything that *may*
> have
> been inadvertently broken was fixed) and i'm going to give kde another
> try.
> I've edited my sources.list file to show:
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1
> (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ stable main
> deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>
> I have no idea why the cd stuff is showing as unstable - I *did*
> download
> stable. I am 100% positive on this. Is this how it should be??
> Anyways...after updating sources.list I run:
>
> apt-get update
>
> And it errors out, with this following error message:
>
> maxus:/etc/apt# apt-get update
> E: Malformed line 15 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (Absolute
> dist)
>
> What have I done wrong? It looks fine to my eye (and reading a previous
> post from (I think it was) Thomas indicates that it just needs to be
> main.
>
> Dave
>
> PS I also tried:
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ main
>
> and that didn't work either.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Schoepf
> To: Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com; David Pastern
> Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Sent: 27/09/2002 5:38
> Subject: Re: 178 days and counting
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0400,
>
> Derrell.Lipman@UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
> > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./
> >
> > It appears to be what I want. That looks like what I did, though, and
>
> there
>
> > were still libraries that were required and only available from
>
> woody/unstable
>
> Use the deb source written above. The packages there will work with
> woody (=stable) without requiring any libs from testing or unstable.
>
> Bye
> Thomas
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