Re: upgrading KDE
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote:
> 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 very outdated packages.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.
KDE 3.3.0 is what is in Testing/Sarge right now, unless kde 3.3.1 has
begun to creep into testing, It should just work, so there may be other
issues, if as you mention you only have testing in your sources.list.
You mention upgrading to kde3.3, what are you upgrading from ? Just say
no to rpm's.
--
Greg C. Madden
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