Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi
>From Robert Bj=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F6rn ?= on Tuesday, 2003-03-25 at 13:41:49 +0100:
> 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.
>
First advice: try using apt-get, especially apt-get -s (the "s" stands
for simulate). Then the system will only pretend to make all the
changes, and it will announce which packages are to be installed or
upgraded or deleted. Alternatively, take apt-get without the -s,
but do NOT proceed with the upgrade until you have examined the
consequences.
You may find it more to the point to install KDE 3.1 on top of woody.
If you use an external apt source (external to Debian, that is), you
can have KDE 3.1 on a woody base. Just include the following line
in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian stable main
Then you do not have to worry about all the potential complications
with the unstable distribution, and you get KDE 3.1 anyway.
That having been said, I am running unstable with
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii kdemultimedia 3.1.0-1 KDE Multimedia metapackage
ii kmidi 3.1.0-1 midi-to-wav player/converter for KDE
so in principle it should be possible. To get from stable to unstable
is rarely a straight path though, so if you want to do things this way,
you have to give more precise error messages.
Conrad
Reply to: