upgrading KDE
Hello Debian Users!
Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not
familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I
switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its
package management and I know that it uses binary packages (as opposed
to Gentoo, which has fantastic package management, but only uses
source).
I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt
is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just
overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get :
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:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
The only line I have in my sources.list is :
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
I'm using testing because stable seems to use thoroughly tested but very
outdated packages. Shouldn't the '-f' switch cause apt-get to resolve
the dependencies?
As an alternative, and I hate to even suggest this, is it generally
considered a Bad Thing (tm) to use RPMs in Debian?
I'm having some other issues with my system, but I'd like to get this
resolved first and take things one step at a time.
Any help in this matter is appreciated.
Thanks.
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