Am Freitag 07 September 2007 schrieb George Adamides: > Hello again and thank you for the propmt reply! Here's the output Hello George! Two things first: 1) Please reply to my message instead of opening a new thread by writing a new mail. 2) Please use proper quoting: http://learn.to/quote > george:~#cat /etc/debian_version > 3.1 You have Debian Sarge. Well at least the base files of it, no guarentee that all packages are from Debian Sarge tough... > #cat /etc/apt/sources.list > #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main > deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > deb http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org/ stable all > deb-src http://dotdeb.pimpmylinux.org/ stable all But since quite some months Etch has been released as stable - thus your sources.list entries with "stable" do not refer to "sarge", but now to "etch"! Did you update your system in the meanwhile? Then you may have a mixture between Sarge and Etch! While it is possible to mix different versions of Debian, I would not recommend it to a novice. I recommend explicetily putting sarge or etch into /etc/apt/sources.list, cause stable will point to a new Debian versions once it gets released. The next one is lenny. But see below for detailed suggestions on how to fix your conflicting package versions. > george:~# apt-cache policy kdat > kdat: > Installed: 4:3.5.7-1 > Candidate: 4:3.5.7-1 > Version Table: > *** 4:3.5.7-1 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 4:3.5.5-4 0 > 500 http://ftp.fi.debian.org stable/main Packages > > I hope this helps. Ok, lets try to make a plan to get it fixed: 1) aptitude purge kdat or if aptitude wants to remove other packages that you think shouldn't be removed apt-get purge kdat instead 2) You seem to have basefiles of Debian Sarge at least, so replace any occurence of "stable" in your /etc/apt/sources.list by "sarge" for now. 3) Lets find out whether you have some packages that are newer than sarge. Install apt-show-versions aptitude install apt-show-versions And post the output of: apt-show-versions | grep "/sarge" | wc -l apt-show-versions | grep "/etch" | wc -l apt-show-versions | grep "/lenny" | wc-l apt-show-versions | grep "/sid" | wc -l It will show the numbers of installed packages from the different Debian versions. For a pure Debian Sarge it should be lots of packages for Sarge, but none for Etch, Lenny or Sid. Then you use "sarge" in /etc/apt/sources.list. You may upgrade to Etch later - I recommend this, especially since KDE 3.5.5 is quite an improvement over KDE 3.3.2 ;-). But for now it is enough to use Sarge to get kdat running. If you already have lots of packages for Etch, I would consider upgrading to Etch completely to have consistent package versions again. Then you would use "etch" or "stable" in /etc/apt/sources.list. I recommend Etch, cause stable will change to Lenny silently, once it is released. You would need to do an upgrade with aptitude / apt-get upgrade / dist-upgrade, but read the Debian upgrade notes and be careful if you are novice with Debian package management. Always check whether the output of aptitude or apt-get makes sense to you before letting it go. If you only have a few packages for Etch, you may try to downgrade them. Well if that mixture of packages work for you, you can even go on with that, but for a beginning I recommend to you not to run packages from different Debian versions together. 4) Once you have a Debian system consistent package versions, you can install KDE, X, kdat as explained before. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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