Re: upgrading KDE

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 03:24, downtime null wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote:
...
> > > 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
> > >
...
> > > 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 very outdated packages.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?


One thing to try is aptitude.  Its a text based. but cursor controlled front 
end to apt.  You can use this to wander round the dependency tree looking to 
see which packages will not install and why (or which will not and why).


-- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
 then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi