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Re: Watch out! In Etch, apt-get upgrade breaks KDE on every machine I upgraded...



Justin Piszcz wrote:
> I fixed this by using the lib from a box with libXft2 2.1.7 instead of
> 2.1.8.2-3.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I found myself referring to your post after rebooting
and nothing worked.

It is possible to fix this without copying the .so from an older installation
-- just downgrade the package.  This is how I solved the issue:

# dpkg --force-depends -r libxft2
# wget \
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xft/libxft2_2.1.7-1_i386.deb
# dpkg -i libxft2_2.1.7-1_i386.deb
# echo libxft2 hold | dpkg --set-selections

Go back to KDM, CTRL+ALT+BKSP, and all is well.  Note that you'll want to
unhold libxft2 (echo libxft2 install | dpkg --set-selections) after this is fixed.

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