Re: KDE 3.1.1 on Woody - it's effects on other installs...
On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:29, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Saturday 05 April 2003 07:03 am, Penn Gwynne wrote:
> > I am fairly (re)new to Debian. I had Potato in its early days, but
> > played with Gentoo then Redhat 8 to get a feel for other distros.
> >
> > Ultimately I reinstalled Debian a couple of weeks ago from the 3.0r1 CDs
> > and of course got KDE 2.2. I want to use KDE specifically, but KMail
> > from KDE 2.2 would not work with my ISP which requires a password for
> > SMTP.
> >
> > After scanning a couple of threads in debian-user I got brave and went to
> > www.kde.org where I added "deb
> > http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main" to my
> > sources.list. Took me a bit to figure out how to actually get KDE 3.1.1.
> > (Didn't realize it was "apt-get install kdm" and not "apt-get upgrade".)
> > So now I have KDE 3.1.1 and love it and this mail is being typed by
> > KMail.
> >
> > I see problems though. I tried to install koffice and get errors. Here
> > is an extract of the terminal spew.
> >
> > koffice: Depends: koffice-libs but it is not going to be installed
> > Depends: kchart but it is not going to be installed
> >
> > Later I tried to install xmmsarts and got the same sort of thing:
> >
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > xmmsarts: Depends: libarts-alsa (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to
> > be installed or libarts (>= 4:2.2.2-1)
> >
> > I assume all of this is because my system is now in sort of a "split"
> > mode; stock Woody except for KDE.
> >
> > Any advice on how to resolve this? Do I need to upgrade to Sarge or
> > (ugh) Sid? Or is it primarily my newness to apt-get and how to force an
> > install of a particular version of a package.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > /Pen
>
> I use an additional source for koffice. I find it helpful to use dselect or
> aptitude to help resolve depends.
> deb http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2.1/Debian/woody ./
>
> - --
> Greg Madden
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Greg,
Thanks for the reply. Couple of comments/questions.
Tried aptitude, but man page not very helpful, maybe a second read-over will
help. Mostly, got no no clue as to what some messages might imply. I will
have to try agin.
I added your URI to my sources.list. Doing the update worked fine, but doing
"apt-get install koffice" yielded the following message from APT
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
koffice: Depends: kpresenter but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
Presumably KPresenter depends on something from woody that really needs to be
from sarge or sid. Another post today mentioned that KPresent needed arts.
I suppose that I could just install what I needed piece meal. Perhaps I
should just bite the bullet and go to sarge directly, assuming it is running
KDE 3.x at the minimum.
/Pen
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