Re: KDE in Stretch unusable
On Wednesday 24 June 2015 13:45:53 Weaver wrote:
> On 2015-06-24 21:21, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 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
>
> I'm running Stretch on an Acer Travelmate 6593 with a full KDE desktop,
> and Gnome desktop on a Dell Optiplex 980. No trouble with either. I
> don't run 'dist-upgrade' any longer. It's always 'safe-upgrade'. I have
> no problems with that. I haven't had any problems with an unstable
> install for years, but perhaps I'm lucky.
AND you only run safe-upgrade!!
Lisi
> Cheers!
>
> Weaver.
>
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