Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi
Hello Conrad,
Thanks for your advice. I will keep the -s option in mind next time.
My Debian installation still seems to be working, despite that apt-get took a
lot of stuff from unstable. I hope my good luck continues.
The reason that I took KDE from unstable was because I thought it was the way
I was supposed to do, in order to get it installed, given that it wasn't
present in stable. I'm not sure I understand your sample apt config. If I put
both stable and unstable sources in there, like this:
deb ftp://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable
...surely I would get an old KDE instead of KDE 3.1 in unstable when I try to
apt-get it?
I have looked at the precise error message I got when I tried to pull
kdemultimedia (using apt-get install kdemultimedia, as opposed to using
dselect which caused all sorts of things to be downloaded):
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Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
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:
kdemultimedia: Depends: kmidi (>= 4:3.1.1-1) but it is not going to be
installed
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tisdagen den 25 mars 2003 18.16 skrev du:
> 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
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