Colin Watson wrote: > Jordan Haddow wrote: > > Hello, this is my first use of this mailing list. I am sorry if > > this is the wrong area for this type of question. If it is could > > someone tell me where I should send it instead. debian-user is a fine place for user questions such as this. Welcome. In this particular case debian-kde might have people there with more specific domain knowledge. > > Anyways, I was just installing Debian (unstable) and everything has been > > going fine, until I tried to install KDE. For some reason the KDE packages > > are all messed up. They are either all different versions or, as in some > > cases, missing altogether. Thanks for your help. > > Welcome to unstable ... dependencies are sometimes broken there. Make > sure appropriate bugs are filed (http://bugs.debian.org/). :-) In the old days the map maker would not know what geography lay in certain places of the map and would just say "there be dragons there" as a warning. Unstable is one of those places. Unstable is "today's build" and is the development area for the next release. KDE needs to simmer on the stove there a little longer before it will be ready to serve. Remember that they are cooking for 11 architectures! For the KDE-3.x we at my place of employment have been using a woody backport from the kde.org site itself. They only need to worry about three architectures (x86, ppc, alpha IIRC) and things are a little easier that way. Being a backport means that it requires nothing later than woody. It should install fine on stable, testing or unstable. This is probably your best option if you are using an x86 machine. The kde.org packages work quite well and are of high quality. But remember that these are not from Debian and problems which would not be allowed into a Debian stable release will and do occur there. Such as the inability to upgrade cleanly from version to version. Presently I need to remove previous versions (e.g. either KDE-2.2.2 or KDE-3.1.0) before installing newer versions such as KDE-3.1.3 which is the latest version I have personally installed. I believe KDE-3.1.4 is now current but have not installed it yet myself. Place the following in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, possibly commenting out your debian.org unstable line, and you should be able to install the KDE apps from here. I say possibly because if an unstable version number is later than these it will prefer the unstable version. So to prevent that the easiest thing is to comment it out temporarily. To me this is a whole lot easier than "pinning". Then put things back when you are done. YMMV. deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.4/Debian stable main OR: deb http://download.kde.org/stable/latest/Debian stable main You will probably need to remove the previous installation of KDE first. I do that by finding all packages with the same version number in the 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep 3.1.[34]-' output or some such and tweaking up manually and removing that list. Also, there is no single meta package to install all of KDE. Instead there are meta packages for the major areas. You might start with these. apt-get install arts kdebase kdeaddons kdeartwork kdeutils kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdetoys kdm Bob
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