Re: switchdesk question
On (31/07/05 09:30), Gene Heskett wrote:
> New debian user, old readhat/fedora user.
>
> I have sarge installed and had aptitude install both gnome and kde.
> gnome looks ok I guess althought there are errors, but I'm a kde fan
> and the utility called 'switchdesk' doesn't seem to be available...
>
> I tried to do an 'aptitude install switchdesk' and got this error
> synopsis after it munched thru the database:
> ------------
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched
> "switchdesk"
The package doesn't appear to be available in Debian; it might be
insorporated into the main package but it's a while since I used kde.
However, if you're talking about the ability to switch between virtual
desktops, it's part of KDE, I recall using 8 desktops.
> The following packages have been kept back:
> adduser base-config base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils
> console-common cron debconf debconf-i18n debianutils exim4
> exim4-base
> exim4-config exim4-daemon-light findutils gettext-base grep
> groff-base
> iptables libattr1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzo1 libnewt0.51
> libpcre3
> libtasn1-2 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
> libtext-wrapi18n-perl login makedev man-db manpages net-tools
> netkit-inetd passwd procps psmisc tasksel wget whiptail
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Writing extended state information... Done
> Setting up gdb (6.3-6) ...
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> install-info(/usr/share/info/gdb.info): read gzip -cd
> </usr/share/info/gdb.info.gz |: 256
> dpkg: error processing gdb (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bug-buddy:
> bug-buddy depends on gdb; however:
> Package gdb is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing bug-buddy (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-core:
> gnome-core depends on bug-buddy (>= 2.8.0); however:
> Package bug-buddy is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-core (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> gnome-desktop-environment:
> gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-core (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-core is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-office:
> gnome-office depends on gnome-core (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-core is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-office (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome:
> gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet.
> gnome depends on gnome-office (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-office is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gdb
> bug-buddy
> gnome-core
> gnome-desktop-environment
> gnome-office
> gnome
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to
> recover:
> Setting up gdb (6.3-6) ...
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> install-info(/usr/share/info/gdb.info): read gzip -cd
> </usr/share/info/gdb.info.gz |: 256
> dpkg: error processing gdb (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bug-buddy:
> bug-buddy depends on gdb; however:
> Package gdb is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing bug-buddy (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-core:
> gnome-core depends on bug-buddy (>= 2.8.0); however:
> Package bug-buddy is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-core (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
> gnome-desktop-environment:
> gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-core (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-core is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-office:
> gnome-office depends on gnome-core (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-core is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome-office (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome:
> gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet.
> gnome depends on gnome-office (= 64); however:
> Package gnome-office is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gdb
> bug-buddy
> gnome-core
> gnome-desktop-environment
> gnome-office
> gnome
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> shop:~#
> --------------
>
> What do I do about the errors above?
>
> And, what do I have to install to get the switchdesk (or a workalike)
> utilty?
Go into aptitude in interactive mode ie.
# aptitude
hit search: '/'
look for broken packages: '~b'
You should then see what the problems are.
Regards
Clive
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