Problems with KDE/KMail
I originally sent this email to the debian-users list, but someone
there said that I ought to move the thread here.
My current set-up:
Debian Lenny
KDE 3.5.10
KMail 1.9.9
KMail has been broken since the upgrade to 3.5.10 from 3.5.9.
Everything works, so far as I can tell, except POP3, but that is a
rather big except. :-( I can manage with my email on Gmail protem,
but it is becoming a real problem.
I have been waiting patiently for an upgrade to fix this, but in spite of two
occasions when a large number of KDE updates were applied, the situation has
if anything deteriorated.
When Lenny updated OOo to 2.4.1 OOo was broken for about a fortnight. So
should I just sit tight?
I have attempted to purge and install KMail with the following result (0), but
have so far refused the offer of so extreme a solution as that proposed by
aptitude. Particularly as, if the break is at present in Lenny rather than
localised here, I would simply get back where I am until the problem is
fixed.
What does the list advise that I should do? I could obviously switch
to a different email client, I would rather revert to Etch than do
without KMail.
TIA
Lisi
(0)
localhost:/home/user# aptitude purge KMail && aptitude install kmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
kdepim kmailcvt
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kmail{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 8270kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdepim: Depends: kmail (>= 4:3.5.9-5) but it is not installable
kmailcvt: Depends: kmail (>= 4:3.5.9-5) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
kde
kdepim
kmailcvt
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
kontact recommends kmail
Score is -663
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
localhost:/home/user#
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