RE: Reverting to the stable distribution

["Jim Hubbard" <jimh@dyersinc.com>]

Remove kde3 first (all of it), then install kde2.  Worth a shot.

Sincerely,
Jim Hubbard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Zuccaro [mailto:david05@primus.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:38 PM
> To: Debian User
> Subject: Reverting to the stable distribution
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I changed my sources.list from
>
> deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>
> to
>
> deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> non-free contrib
> deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
>
> Then I did an apt-get update, which I think has removed kde2 and
> installed kde3.  The problem is kde3 won't run (I don't get
> any errors
> it just sends me back to the login screen).
>
> I want to revert back to the stable distribution so I changed my
> sources.list to:
>
> deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>
> deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> non-free contrib
> deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
>
> and added the following line to apt.conf:
>
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
>
> I then did an apt-get update, but I still don't have kde2 back and I
> can't run kde3.
>
> If I do a apt-get install kde I get the following message:
>
> root:~>apt-get install kde
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely
> likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kde: Depends: libarts or
>                 libarts-alsa but it is not going to be installed or
>                 libarts-bin but it is not installable
>        Depends: libkmid or
>                 libkmid-alsa but it is not going to be installed or
>                 libkmid-bin but it is not installable
>        Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be
> installed or
>                 kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> My question is how can I revert back to kde2?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
>
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