Re: KDE3 apt-get problem
Thanks a lot David :-)
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 16:10, David Richmond wrote:
> This is a bit of a wild guess because you did not say which unofficial KDE3
> packages you are attempting to use or what the rest of your system
> configuration is (debian version, in particular). I'm going to reply at
> length in the hopes that many lurking newbies may benefit from a post that
> hits a broad variety of topics involved with installing KDE3. I do not
> particularly consider myself an expert, but I offer what I can.
Well sorry for that. I am using woody3.0 and got the KDE3 kdelibs and kdebase
from http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./
>
> I recall having to pull several packages, in particular library packages,
> from unstable and sort out multiple dependency problems when I installed
> KDE3 on my woody system. This is because KDE3 is not yet officially in
> Debian, and even if it were, it would be unstable or testing, yielding many
> of the same dependency problems for someone installing on a Debian 3.0
> stable system. KDE3 is a huge software package and there _are_ going to be
> issues when installing on woody. Use KDE3 packages built _for_ woody,
> which have shown up since I did my upgrade :), or you're going to need some
> libraries from unstable.
>
> It seems likely that you do not have unstable in your apt sources.list, so
I don't!
> add it. But a word of caution: it seems that the typical route with KDE3
> is to add unstable to the sources.list and let dselect or apt-get pull
> virtually all of unstable down in the process of KDE3 ;). However, besides
> using woody packages, there is another method; you can run a mixed
> unstable/testing/stable system by using pinning and setting the default
> distribution as detailed in the APT HOWTO. I prefer this because I do not
I couldn;t find APT HOWTO can you give me the URL?
> want certain parts of the system to be upgraded to unstable. However, I
> had to explicitly tell apt-get to upgrade to unstable libraries necessary
> for KDE3 via "apt-get -t unstable install [package_name]". Which meant
> that I had to compare version numbers, etc. manually.
>
> My final advice, again not knowing for sure what exactly you're trying to
> do: since you are confused about how to resolve the version conflict
> between zlib1g and zlib1g-dev, *find and use the woody-based unofficial
> KDE3 packages*. Hopefully this will go fixed...but be warned that yes,
> there are going to be genuine packaging bugs, and you're going to have to
> get around them as best you can. KDE3 has not been subjected yet to the
> rigors of the Debian process. :) But, if you are as specific as possible
> when writing to the list, the problems will be resolved and you'll have a
> working KDE3 install.
>
> Good luck.
>
> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 07:13 am, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
> > I apt-getted KDE3 on it.Now when I am trying to run dselect it complain
> > that there is some version confjict about zlib1g and zlib1g-dev and also
> > some other packages I don't know what can I do? Is it a bug or something
> > that can be solved. Could anybody help me please?
>
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