Re: KDE3.1 in sid and woody
Check http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE
sid needs some help to install
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:52:22PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am just rebuilding Debian on my Powermac G4 having repartioned to
> install sid as the main system but with a "/" partition to run woody as a
> fallback (this is my main workstation).
>
> Both installs have worked fine (after a couple of blind alleys) and I've
> installed various packages using aptitude (for the first time - it is
> friendlier than dselect once you get used to it). For the last few
> hours I've been trying to get KDE 3.1 installed - part of the reason for
> trying sid was to avoid backporting.
>
> Both the sid and woody packages seem to be partially broken. In sid I'm
> using the official mirrors and aptitude reports that packages are
> broken. In woody I'm using http://download.kde.org and the kdebase
> package isn't downloading in full.
If you mean it literally isn't downloading, then I'd suspect something
prosaic like their server is messed up, your connection is messed up,
or your system is messed up (e.g., disk full)!
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Will these problems resolve if I wait (I've
> not used sid before and so I'm unfamiliar with how quickly these things
> get fixed). I looked at the developer archives but couldn't see
> anything relating to this.
>
> TIA
>
> Clive
>
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