Re: Ibook on debian
On (26/07/05 18:01), Marco Guidetti wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> >Many people including me have been using KDE on powerpc sid (and Gnome
> >as well, I suspect). Why do you say they are unusable?
>
> 'cause when i try
>
> #apt-get install kde
>
> i get error messages saying that this or that packages (can check if
> you find it useful) is not installable. That happened the first time
> trying to install debtags-edit (and the uninstallable package was
> libgtkmm-2.4-1 for what i remember, so it can be wrong), just a minute
> before installing kde.
You may be well aware of this but for the sake of the archive:
I suggest maintaining sid with aptitude and install apt-listbugs. ie.
# aptitude update
# aptitude upgrade
# aptitude install xxxx etc
then when you hit a dependency problem or open bugs that may cause a
problem, you can abandon the update or install and go into aptitude
interactively:
# aptitude
you will then be able to adjust what gets upgraded or 'held'.
see: man aptitude
For me, who can't afford the downtime of dealing with a broken system,
it's allowed me to run sid without a problem for the last 18months.
Regards
Clive
>
>
> >It may be that something is pending transition to sid (xorg is replacing
> >xfree86) and holding you up. In which case, you can either wait a few
> >days or find another solution which may involve installing the etch
> >version of Gnome or KDE until the dust settles
>
> i have installed xorg, and it works. :)
>
> >I haven't updated my G4 recently (it's not my main workstation) but on
> >amd64, I updated to xorg a couple of days ago and all seems fine. I
> >don't know about KDE/Gnome, I use xfce4.2.
>
> i have here only x86 'puters with debian except this ibook, and all is
> working fine, i thought it was an issue related to ppc... :)
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