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Re: Squeeze KDE unusable: no taskbar or decorations, missing shortcut key




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Hello

forwarding mail from Modestas Vainius:

> retitle 585751 KDE is broken in testing, do not upgrade!

> On sekmadienis 13 Birželis 2010 19:43:34 Alexandre LISSY wrote:
>> > I've just got informed of a workaround on IRC. Installing libkdecore5 >> > from Sid solves the issue, at least temporarly. > Yes, it is a known problem. I recommend not to upgrade but if you did, you > may do the following to fix it:
>
> 1) Add unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> # echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> 2) aptitude (or apt-get) update
> # aptitude update
>
> 3) Upgrade installed binary packages from kde4libs source package:
>
> # aptitude --without-recommends install '?source-package(kde4libs)~i'/unstable
>
> In fact, you only need libkdecore5 4:4.4.4-1 to fix this but installing this
> package alone will cause dependency issues. It is harder to achieve the same
> effect with apt-get, but you may try:
>
> # apt-cache showsrc kde4libs | sed -n '/^Binary:/ { s/^Binary:\s\+//; s/,/\n/g; p}' | sort -u | xargs > dpkg-query -l | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt-get -y -t unstable install
>
> 4) Remove unstable from sources.list.
>
> We are working to fix this in a proper way but it probably won't be easy
> or fast solution.
>
> -- Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>



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