Re: KDE3.1: which packages?

[Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 08:37, Thomas Watz wrote:
> yesterday I did a upgrade from 3.0.5a to 3.1 on my sarge system (some
> packages are from sid). It works mostly, but to do this is a mess. Perhaps
> I am doing something wrong. I had to specify every program with version
> number, e.g.
>
> apt-get install kate=4:3.1* kedit=4:3.1* ......
>
> This was a lot of work and has taken the whole evening. I do not know, why
> it is not possible to use the metapackages, e.g.
>
> apt-get install kdeutils
>
> This gives a lot of dependency problems and results in the above mentioned
> behaviour.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Has anybody a hint what could have gone wrong?
> sources.list wrong? I don't know.

For some reason, apt is not seeing the 3.1 packages as newer/higher priority 
than your existing packages - you can diagnose this using apt-cache policy:

  apt-cache policy kdeutils

This will tell you what version you have installed, what versions are 
available (and their prioirity) and whether or not apt thinks the package 
should be upgraded.

A priority of 500 is the default given to all sources unless overridden in 
/etc/apt/preferences (apt_preferences(5)). A priority of 100 is given to 
installed packages.

You should try (or have tried) this command for a few of the packages to see 
why apt didn't want to upgrade, and create/edit /etc/apt/preferences to suit.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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