Re: switchdesk question
On Sunday 31 July 2005 09:54, Clive Menzies wrote:
>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.
No, I want to switch the desktop from gnome to kde. How is this done
in debian?
>> 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.
This does not present me with a list, the screen is still the initial
screen once I press enter.
I've since tried to locate all the upgradeable packages, but I found
that a 'u' doesn't do it, I have to first - key them, clear any
advisories & then + key them, at which point a 'g' does it.
But bug-buddy, gdm, etc are not in the upgradeable listings so this
has not been fixed yet.
>Regards
>
>Clive
>
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