Re: KDE in Stretch unusable
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 10:23:41 Gary Dale wrote:
> I just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The dist-upgrade went smoothly
> until I rebooted into the new system then things went wrong.
>
> The first thing I noticed was that it complained when trying to start up
> KDE. It said the kde-plasma-desktop was invalid (or similar) and
> switched me into the default Gnome desktop.
>
> Interestingly, I still had konsole so I used that to try to install
> task-kde-desktop. That failed with dependency errors so I tried
> lower-level kde packages and eventually got only a half-dozen packages
> that needed installing for kde-standard. Once I installed them and
> kde-standard, I was able to install the full task.
>
> Except I couldn't start konsole or icedove when I rebooted and selected
> kde as the desktop. Iceweasel started OK as did gkrellm (two other
> things on my desktop session).
>
> Trying the same tactic as before, I eventually got to trying to install
> libgnutls-deb0-28. When I ask apt-get to install it however, it decides
> it needs to remove pretty much everything kde and libreoffice - 390
> packages in all.
>
> Any advice on how I should proceed other than abandoning kde?
The usual Stretch advice? Wait a few days, then try again? And then another
few days, and then try again?
If necessary, wait a few weeks, really zap everything KDE, and install KDE
afresh?
Lisi
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