Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update'
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> > In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present
>> > in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following
>> > lines:
>> >
>> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>> > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib
>> > non-free
>> > , then did
>> >
>> > # apt-get update
>> > # apt-get install kmobiletools
>> >
>> > , but the output was:
>> >
>> > Reading Package Lists... Done
>> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> > or been moved out of Incoming.
>> >
>> > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
>> > that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>> > that package should be filed.
>> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> >
>> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> > kmobiletools: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.2-1) but it is not
>> > going to be installed Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6) but it is not
>> > going to be installed Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not going to be
>> > installed E: Broken packages
>> >
>> > . I'm quite lost here, any suggestion?
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 16:38:53 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> Note the mismatch above. You are getting binary packages from testing
>> and source packages from unstable.
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> apt-get install kmobiletools -t testing
>>
>> Beware! This will pull in various packages from testing in addition to
>> kmobiletools. Are you sure you want to do that? Instead, you might want
>> to consider compiling the package yourself, or seeing if it is
>> available from backports.org. Or wait until testing becomes stable :-)
Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> The problem is that there was a major change related to the C++ library
> of KDE on Debian between versions 3.3 and 3.4. All KDE applications on
> stable are version 3.3 and depend on package "kdelibs4". Testing has KDE
> 3.5 now and those applications depend on "kdelibs4c2a". The two versions
> of the library are incompatible and therefore the different versions of
> the Debian KDE packages cannot be mixed.
>
> kmobiletools does not seem to be on backports.org, therefore your only
> options seem to be to wait or to try to compile the program yourself,
> unless you are ready to take the plunge and dist-upgrade your entire
> system to Etch now.
Thanks indeed to Liam and Florian.
I compiled kmobiletools from source.
Cheers,
Rodolfo
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