Re: Update wants to deinstall lots of packages
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:58:28 +0200
"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
> Dear list and Packagage maintainers,
>
> it looks like apt wants to deinstall a lot of packages when upgrading
> to KDE 4.10 in jessie.
>
> The reason is in the deinstallation of kdelibs4c2a, which is in
> conflict with the latest kdelibs-bin.
>
> So, isn't the possibility to let both libs reside on the system?
> kdelibs4c2a got a lot of dependencies to many applications.
>
> Or must I just wait, until these applications are ported to the newer
> libs? I guess, some of them might not be ported (i.e. famous ksensors
> app).
>
> To clear, look at my output:
>
> protheus2:~# LANG=C apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> akonadiconsole akregator amarok ark artsbuilder backintime-kde
> celestia-kde cervisia cvsservice dcoprss
> digikam digikam-doc dragonplayer filelight gwenview jovie juk k3b
> k3b-i18n kaboodle kaccessible
> kaddressbook kalarm kandy kapptemplate kate kbabel kbstate
.
.
etc., etc.
Probably best to wait a while. I run sid, and have never used KDE as
such, but I have quite a few of those packages you're about to lose.
Probably they haven't all made it into the repository yet.
I do recall losing ksensors, but I wasn't actively using it, so I
didn't worry.
--
Joe
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