Kde gone
Greetings,
I recently started exploring Debian. I installed Woody and after a day
or so upgraded to Sarge. While exploring the available packages I
eventually upgraded to kernel 2.4.24 and shortly after that installed
xearth. While monitoring the progress of the apt-get install xearth I
saw some disturbing lines indicating kde was being removed along with
most of the kde support/program packages. I have kdm as the default
display manager but when I log in I no longer have the option to have
the kde desktop. I removed xearth, but the damage was done. If I do an
apt-get install kde now, I get the following errors-
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# apt-get install kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
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:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kdelibs3 but it is not installable
Depends: libarts but it is not installable or
libarts-alsa but it is not installable or
libarts-bin but it is not installable
Depends: libkmid but it is not installable or
libkmid-alsa but it is not installable or
libkmid-bin but it is not installable
Depends: kdebase but it is not going to be installed or
kdebase3 but it is not installable
Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not installable or
kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
Depends: kdebase-libs but it is not installable or
kdebase3-libs but it is not installable
Depends: kdebase-doc but it is not installable or
kdebase3-doc but it is not installable
Depends: kab but it is not installable
Depends: kpm but it is not installable
Depends: kfract but it is not installable
Depends: koffice but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
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When I do a dpkg -l I see there is a kdelibs4 installed and there is the
rc indicator for kdelibs3. So, I'm guessing apt removed kdelibs3 when it
installed kdelibs4, although when this happened I don't know.
I did an apt-get update then tried getting kde again. No good. I suppose
it's possible that the support packages kde has listed as dependencies
have been upgraded but kde itself is still looking for the earlier
package revisions. However, it's far more likely I'm just doing
something wrong here since I've been running Debian a whole 4 days
now...
Any suggestions from those more experienced? I'll be happy to provide
any further information but don't be shy about giving explicit
instructions. :)
Thanks in advance,
Dan
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