Re: upgrading KDE
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote:
> 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 very outdated packages.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
>
>
To answer Jason's question: It's not a stupid response. I in technical
support and understand that it's impossible to determine someone's
technical aptitude until you start asking questions. That being said,
yes, I ran 'apt-get update' first.
I'm currently running KDE 2.2.2 as reported by dpkg. I have a ton of
packages that are being held back though. I could possibly track down
the problem by manually adding dependencies to the command line, but
that defeats having a package management system.
I expected as much about RPMs. :)
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