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Re: KDE 3.2.2 for Woody... Careful upgrading..



On April 20, 2004 01:14 am, you wrote:
> Michael Peddemors writes:
> > Korganizer ate my calendar.. (Backup your .ics, actually my fault,
> > anyone upgrading should always backup their .kde directory, JUST IN
> > CASE, however it still should not have ate it.)
>
> Can you file a bug report about that on bugs.kde.org, so people there
> can try to diagnose and fix ?

I always tend to file bug reports.. :)

First of all, you can see that this is just a general idea so others who are 
going to jump in and try an 'apt-get upgrade' might face... Also, the 

> First of all, apparently you're using "apt-get install" for upgrading
> packages.  This is a bad idea.  Use dselect, aptitude, synaptic, these
> do a much better job at automatically handling dependencies.

The packages themselves are meant to handle dependencies, that is the beauty 
of Debian isn't it?

> That of course has nothing to do with KDE.  However, you need to
> remove the old openoffice.org1.1-bin, as it is replaced by
> openoffice.org-bin.  See above, this would have been fixed by a proper
> pkg mgt tool.

I expected that, that is why the dependency forced a certain version of 
libfreetype.  But others may not expect it.

> > kdeaddons won't install... Not sure why.. (Actually, NOW it does,
> > but only after installing kdeaddons-kfile-plugins, not sure why that
> > didn't automagically work)

Again, this is to point out that 'apt-get upgrade' doesn't work in this case, 
and people have to watch out.

> > Lost 'psi' as it needs libqt3-mt, but that will remove
> > everything.. as we now use libqt3c102-mt (Strange the naming for
> > qt3-dev-tools stayed the same)
>
> If you're going to be using unstable, you should also use psi from
> unstable.  See above: use a proper pkg mgt tool.

If you notice, I am NOT using unstable, but WOODY..
Again, I am doing testing of the upgrade, for our clients are going to run 
into the same issues..   This is to point out that there are some dependency 
problems that prevent an apt-get upgrade, or apt-get install in moving to 
this version of KDE..

I have the ability to deal with these issues, others on the list may not.

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