KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi
KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi
I'm not sure whether this has been brought up before, but I searched the mailing list archives and couldn't quite find anything that seemed relevant to my situation.
I gave Debian (Woody) a try a few days ago -- installed it from scratch, and then grabbed XFree86 from the official stable package distribution. So far so good. Then, in order to get KDE 3.1, I changed to unstable and used apt-get install on each of the KDE packages. I immediately got an error message when I tried getting kdemultimedia -- it said something about unresolved dependancies (unfortunatately I'm at work and can't check the exakt message), listing only kmidi, and then said it couldn't be installed. I then went ahead with all of the other packages, and then it went just fine. When all was done, I wanted to get kdemultimedia again -- but the problem was the same, apt-get still would refuse to get it, complaining about kmidi.
I then used dselect and selected the kdemultimedia package. This time I got some kind of dependancy list suggestion, which I accepted. Then to my horror it starts downloading very large amounts of data, replacing such things as my gcc with gcc 3.x, installing new C/C++ libraries and all sorts of packages from unstable that I didn't think were directly related, and that I'd really prefer not be replaced.
I thought at first I had done something wrong, and repeated the whole scenario again yesterday -- including reformatting the partitions and installing Debian again. Same result!
I would be very grateful for any advice. I'd really like to continue running Debian as I like the package management system from what I have seen, but this is a real show-stopper for me and surely there must be others who stumbled upon this, or who successfully installed KDE 3.1 from scratch in Woody?
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