Installing 3.4.0 killed my -dev environment
On a whim, I grabbed the Alioth packages and gave the new KDE a whirl.
I wiped out my development environment in so doing. The dist-upgrade took
down a huge number of -dev packages. It looked like it was going to balance
out trading this for that and come out OK in the end, so I went ahead and did
it anyway. I probably shouldn't have.
At this point I'm stuck trying to get kdelibs4-dev reinstalled. It won't go
because libqt3-mt-dev is uninstallable. This, in turn, is uninstallable
because of a tangle of broken X-related dependencies. It's a real mess.
I tried adding experimental to the brew, but it didn't help. I'm pretty much
stuck at this point, since I can't dist-upgrade back. I could restore
yesterday's backup, but I prefer moving forward.
It looks like X switched from XFree86 to X.Org, and it also looks like QT has
switched from libqt3-mt to libqt3c102-mt. However, libqt3-mt-dev >= 3.3.3 is
a dependency of the Alioth kdelibs4-dev, and there's no libqt3c102-mt-dev
either.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libarts1-dev (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libopenexr-dev (>= 1.2.1) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.3) but it is not going to be
installed
Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed
And it's not installable:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: libxrandr-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: libxmu-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: libx11-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going
to be installed
Depends: libxt-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed
or
libgl-dev
Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be installed
or
libglu1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed
or
libglu-dev
Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed
I can't install the other kdelibs4-dev dependencies either. More X stuff:
#apt-get install libarts1-dev libopenexr-dev libxrender-dev
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libarts1-dev: Depends: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.3) but it is not going to be
installed
libopenexr-dev: Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed
or
libgl-dev
Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be
installed or
libglu-dev
libxrender-dev: Depends: libx11-dev but it is not going to be installed
So this is pretty much fubared. I need help getting out of this mess so I can
get back to work on Rosegarden. I had planned to do a little hacking this
weekend. Oops.
Oh well, I do know better than to go get ultra experimental bleeding edge
stuff and play with it on my main box. Bad Silvan, bad!
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
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