Re: bacula has a dependency on KDE?

[Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net>]

Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:22:36 -0500
> Tom Allison <tom@tacocat.net> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install bacula on my debian box to cover the rest of
> > my network.
> >
> > I was rather shocked to find that in order to install bacula I have
> > to install KDE.  This is a first and something that, for my own
> > reasons and configuration, I simply must avoid.
> >
> >
> > So is there a way to get around this dependency between bacula and
> > KDE? There are so many packages involved I'm having a lot of
> > difficulty finding the offender(s).
>
> bacula does not depend on kde (or any kind of de, in fact) in any way.
> You might be installing bacula-console-qt, which, being a qt
> application, might be pulling in some qt libraries.  Please post the
> entire output you get when you try to install bacula, including the
> command you use to install it.

I used aptitude to select 'bacula' and all of KDE came along for the ride.

I ended up installing bacula via 'apt-get' and slowing working my way 
through the packags.  There's a serious installation bug in the 
bacula-sd packages through.  There seems to be a required device name 
that's not provided in the installation process and, since this causes 
bacula-sd not to start, it fails all dependencies on bacula-sd.