Sarge and kde
Following a post a couple of days ago, I upgraded a new Woody
install to Sarge, but the whole of my kde packages were deleted and
not upgraded. I finished with a working Gnome set up (nice but not
what I wanted).
OK, I said now lets install kde - seemed to go well to start with, but
then gave me the 'run-around'. I'm retired and don't mind a challenge
(time is of no consequence), so I chased the problem like chasing a
mouse with a slipper. But each time I thought I'd got the creature
cornered it escaped.
Now I've reached the point where only kdebase, kdecore and
kdeamusements cannot be configured because I can't install konqueror,
and try as I might I can do nothing to get it installed.
I don't understand the error messages (they now are basically the same):-
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[snip]
(Reading database ... 70770 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking konqueror (from .../konqueror_4%3a3.1.5-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/konqueror_4%3a3.1.5-2_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/kfmexec', which is also in package
kdelibs-bin
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/konqueror_4%3a3.1.5-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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and
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[snip]
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdebase:
kdebase depends on konqueror (>= 4:3.1.5-2); however:
Package konqueror is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kdebase (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-core:
kde-core depends on kdebase; however:
Package kdebase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-amusements:
kde-amusements depends on kde-core; however:
Package kde-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-amusements (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
kdebase
kde-core
kde-amusements
installation script returned error exit status 100.
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Any suggestions as to what I can do? (I still have the option to
do a Sarge netinst and go that way, but I'd like to try to
discover why I've got so far and then hit what on the face of it
seems a simple problem)
Grateful for any assistance, John..
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