Re: Installing KDE 4.6 Backport On Squeeze

2012/3/15 Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk>

[I realise the various unofficial KDE backports are not the primary
topic on this list, so this email is just in case my question is
Frequent, and/or there's anybody here with any obvious answers. TIA.]

This is the first time I've tried installing Debian KDE since 3.3 on
'sarge', so please be gentle :)

I have just installed a fresh and bare-bones (no desktop) 'squeeze'
system on an AMD64 box, using the netinst 6.0.4 CD, and I'd now like to
install KDE 4.6.5 from http://www.debian-desktop.org/, but am unsure
what is a sensible way of installing a useful chunk of the desktop.

I've been following the advice at
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde4.html
and http://www.debian-desktop.org/doku.php/start
and I've tried all the obvious meta-packages, with these results :

"aptitude install kde (or kde-standard or kde-full)" gives :
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde-standard: Depends: polkit-kde-1 (>= 0.99) but it is not going to
be installed.
plasma-scriptengine-python: Depends: python-kde4 (>= 4:4.6.80) but
4:4.4.5-3 is to be installed.
plasma-desktop: Breaks: plasma-widget-networkmanagement (<
0.1+git20110422.810bc16-1+) but 0.1~svn1141976-1 is to be installed.
kdebase-runtime-data: Breaks: plasma-widget-networkmanagement (<
0.1+git20110422.810bc16-1+) but 0.1~svn1141976-1 is to be installed.

"aptitude install kde-minimal" gives :
No candidate version found for kde-minimal

The least broken option is this :

"aptitude install kde-plasma-desktop" gives :
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
plasma-scriptengine-python: Depends: python-kde4 (>= 4:4.6.80) but it
is not going to be installed.

Would that last one give me a good result ?
Does a missing 'plasma-scriptengine-python' matter much ?

As for the others, I don't think I need
'plasma-widget-networkmanagement', but I suspect 'polkit-kde-1' is
rather important ... any comments ?

Anyway, any insights into all this would be gratefully received.

[Yes, I could just install the KDE 4.4.3 that comes with 'squeeze' - I
quite like it, but I thought I'd just have a look at the 4.6.5 backport.]

PS: what's with the wacky version numbers (5:66) of stable packages like
'kde', 'kde-full' and 'kde-plasma-desktop' ? Why not '4:4.4.3' ?

Cheers
Nick Boyce
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