Re: KDE 3.3.2 fails re-install [SOLVED]
Anthony Simonelli wrote:
> what repositories do you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?
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> also, make sure you have all the kde components uninstalled:
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> dpkg --get-selections | grep kde
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> and remove any that come up. Anyone else have a suggestion?
This seems to have done the trick. "aptitude remove kde" uninstalled a
*ton* of stuff (pretty scary) including a lot that didn't seem to have
anything to do with KDE, but when I looked at it with dpkg, I found 28
additional packages still listed. I removed them one by one, until all
that was left on the list was kdebase-data (which was one of the
packages that had had problems.)
I reinstalled KDE with aptitude (350 packages, whew) and they all
installed without a hitch. And it fixed my original problem, which was
the loss of all menu items in KDE.
Thanks!
Steve
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> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:37 am, you wrote:
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>>Anthony Simonelli wrote:
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>>>I would try the command:
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>>>aptitude -f install
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>>>to see if there are any broken packages. I would also clean out the
>>>cache:
>>>
>>>aptitude clean
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>>I had done all of this except the 'aptitude clean'. I've tried that and
>>gone through the entire exercise again. No change.
>>
>>This is acting very much like it's a problem with the packages -- It
>>claims to have trouble overwriting existing files, but those files do
>>not in fact actually exist. The only problme seems to be the fact that
>>these files overlap with other packages.
>>
>>Here's what the error messages look like:
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>>
>>Unpacking kdebase-data (from .../kdebase-data_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_all.deb)
>>... dpkg: error processing
>>/var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-data_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_all.deb (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/wallpapers/fulmine.jpg', which is also
>>in package kdewallpapers
>>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>Unpacking kicker (from .../kicker_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_i386.deb) ...
>>dpkg: error processing
>>/var/cache/apt/archives/kicker_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite
>>`/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/kmenu.png', which is also in
>>package kdelibs-data
>>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>Errors were encountered while processing:
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-data_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_all.deb
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/kicker_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_i386.deb
>>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
>>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdebase:
>> kdebase depends on kdebase-data (>= 4:3.3.2-1sarge1); however:
>> Package kdebase-data is not installed.
>> kdebase depends on kicker (>= 4:3.3.2-1sarge1); however:
>> Package kicker is not installed.
>>dpkg: error processing kdebase (--configure):
>> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-core:
>> kde-core depends on kdebase; however:
>> Package kdebase is not configured yet.
>>dpkg: error processing kde-core (--configure):
>> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kcontrol:
>> kcontrol depends on kdebase-data; however:
>> Package kdebase-data is not installed.
>>dpkg: error processing kcontrol (--configure):
>> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of konqueror:
>> konqueror depends on kcontrol; however:
>> Package kcontrol is not configured yet.
>>dpkg: error processing konqueror (--configure):
>> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>Errors were encountered while processing:
>> kdebase
>> kde-core
>> kcontrol
>> konqueror
>>Reading package lists... Done
>>Building dependency tree... Done
>>Reading extended state information
>>Initializing package states... Done
>>Reading task descriptions... Done
>>
>>
>>>then make sure you have the most current packages:
>>>
>>>aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
>>>
>>>Then try installing it....
>>>
>>>aptitude install kde
>>>
>>>that's what I'd try first.
>>>
>>>On Monday 27 February 2006 04:02 pm, Steve Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm not sure when it broke, but my KDE 3.3.2 seems to have developed
>>>>some problems. The control panel started coming up empty, and when I
>>>>logged out and logged back in, all the apps were missing too. When I
>>>>created a new user, that user had the same problems, so this seems
>>>>system wide and not corrupted user configs.
>>>>
>>>>So I used aptitude to remove kde entirely. I then tried to re-install
>>>>(several times) and it fails each time, with unpacking errors in two
>>>>packages.
>>>>
>>>>kdebase-data fails while unpacking /usr/share/wallpapers/fulmine.jpg --
>>>>it claims that the file is also in package kdewallpapers
>>>>
>>>>kicker fails while unpacking
>>>>/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/kmenu.png -- it claims that the
>>>>file is also in package kdelibs-data
>>>>
>>>>kdebase can't be configured because of problems with kdebase-data and
>>>>kicker.
>>>>kde-core can't be configured because of problems with kdebase.
>>>>kcontrol can't be configured because of problems with kdebase-data
>>>>konquerer can't be confgiured becuase of problems with kcontrol
>>>>
>>>>The problem is not that the two files it's trying to overwrite already
>>>>exist. If I delete them (kmenu.png and fulmine.jpg), and then
>>>>re-install, I get the same errors, even though those files are not
>>>>actually physically present. As near as I can figure out, the problem
>>>>is that they exist in two packages, and that's what upsets aptitude.
>>>>For what it's worth, apt-get does the same thing.
>>>>
>>>>I've running a moderately fresh installation of Sarge -- I lost a system
>>>>disk last month and installed everything then. KDE worked fine at that
>>>>time.
>>>>
>>>>It doesn't *seem* like a problem with my setup, but it could be. Anyone
>>>>have any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Steve
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