Re: KDE 3.1.1 on Woody - it's effects on other installs...
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On Saturday 05 April 2003 18:03, 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.
Guys, you probably don't know it but there's even more :-)
deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/debian/kde woody main
http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/debian/kde/README
Try that one instead. That's where I'll put updates on compared to the debs on
the ftp servers.
Ralf
>
> 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
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