Re: upgrading KDE
From: Dave Carrigan (dave_at_rudedog.org)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:21:10 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:15:49PM -0600, downtime null wrote:
> I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt
> is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just
> overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get :
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> The only line I have in my sources.list is :
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> I'm using testing because stable seems to use thoroughly tested but very
> outdated packages. Shouldn't the '-f' switch cause apt-get to resolve
> the dependencies?n
The -f switch just tells apt to ignore existing dependency problems so that
it can do more work; it won't help when trying to install new packages.
While I usually just used aptitude for drilling around the dependency
issuse, I have solved them at the apt-get level by adding more and more
packages onto the apt-get line. So for you, try to do
apt-get install kde kde-core kde-amusements
That will either work or give you more packages that won't be
installed. Keep adding the packages and eventually you'll figure out the
one package that is keeping everything else back.
If you're using a desktop system, you might want to consider using
unstable rather than testing.
> As an alternative, and I hate to even suggest this, is it generally
> considered a Bad Thing (tm) to use RPMs in Debian?
It will cause you all kinds of grief.
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