Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

> You've gone beyond the official Debian repositories; expect breakage.

I installed kde from Alioth once before and it worked perfectly. But,
I understand that I should expect some breakage, despite KDE now being
at 3.4.2. But, some times, a bit of risk is needed in life, yes?

> 1. You might try aptitude instead of apt-get.
> 
> 2. If that doesn't solve the problem, I'd purge kde, remove alioth from
> my sources.list, then reinstall kde.

I think I actually know what the problem is: Debian Sarge is telling
apt-get (or aptitude) to install these two packages: kdeedu-data and
konq-plugins. However, both of these packages have been replaced (by
kdebase-data and kdelibs-data respectively). So, what I really need to
do is tell either apt-get or aptitude to stop trying to install them:
they will not work because they have been replaced.

I tried a hold (?) with =, but that didn't seem to solve the problem.

Have you any suggestions?

I thank you kindly in advance.