Re: KDE 3.3.2 fails re-install [SOLVED]
- From: Steve Garcia <sgarcia@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:16:28 -0800
Anthony Simonelli wrote:
what repositories do you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?
also, make sure you have all the kde components uninstalled:
dpkg --get-selections | grep kde
and remove any that come up. Anyone else have a suggestion?
This seems to have done the trick. "aptitude remove kde" uninstalled a
*ton* of stuff (pretty scary) including a lot that didn't seem to have
anything to do with KDE, but when I looked at it with dpkg, I found 28
additional packages still listed. I removed them one by one, until all
that was left on the list was kdebase-data (which was one of the
packages that had had problems.)
I reinstalled KDE with aptitude (350 packages, whew) and they all
installed without a hitch. And it fixed my original problem, which was
the loss of all menu items in KDE.
Thanks!
Steve
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:37 am, you wrote:
Anthony Simonelli wrote:
I would try the command:
aptitude -f install
to see if there are any broken packages. I would also clean out the
cache:
aptitude clean
I had done all of this except the 'aptitude clean'. I've tried that and
gone through the entire exercise again. No change.
This is acting very much like it's a problem with the packages -- It
claims to have trouble overwriting existing files, but those files do
not in fact actually exist. The only problme seems to be the fact that
these files overlap with other packages.
Here's what the error messages look like:
Unpacking kdebase-data (from .../kdebase-data_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_all.deb)
... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-data_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/wallpapers/fulmine.jpg', which is also
in package kdewallpapers
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking kicker (from .../kicker_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kicker_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/kmenu.png', which is also in
package kdelibs-data
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-data_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/kicker_4%3a3.3.2-1sarge1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdebase:
kdebase depends on kdebase-data (>= 4:3.3.2-1sarge1); however:
Package kdebase-data is not installed.
kdebase depends on kicker (>= 4:3.3.2-1sarge1); however:
Package kicker is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kdebase (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-core:
kde-core depends on kdebase; however:
Package kdebase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kcontrol:
kcontrol depends on kdebase-data; however:
Package kdebase-data is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kcontrol (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of konqueror:
konqueror depends on kcontrol; however:
Package kcontrol is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing konqueror (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
kdebase
kde-core
kcontrol
konqueror
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
then make sure you have the most current packages:
aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
Then try installing it....
aptitude install kde
that's what I'd try first.
On Monday 27 February 2006 04:02 pm, Steve Garcia wrote:
I'm not sure when it broke, but my KDE 3.3.2 seems to have developed
some problems. The control panel started coming up empty, and when I
logged out and logged back in, all the apps were missing too. When I
created a new user, that user had the same problems, so this seems
system wide and not corrupted user configs.
So I used aptitude to remove kde entirely. I then tried to re-install
(several times) and it fails each time, with unpacking errors in two
packages.
kdebase-data fails while unpacking /usr/share/wallpapers/fulmine.jpg --
it claims that the file is also in package kdewallpapers
kicker fails while unpacking
/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/kmenu.png -- it claims that the
file is also in package kdelibs-data
kdebase can't be configured because of problems with kdebase-data and
kicker.
kde-core can't be configured because of problems with kdebase.
kcontrol can't be configured because of problems with kdebase-data
konquerer can't be confgiured becuase of problems with kcontrol
The problem is not that the two files it's trying to overwrite already
exist. If I delete them (kmenu.png and fulmine.jpg), and then
re-install, I get the same errors, even though those files are not
actually physically present. As near as I can figure out, the problem
is that they exist in two packages, and that's what upsets aptitude.
For what it's worth, apt-get does the same thing.
I've running a moderately fresh installation of Sarge -- I lost a system
disk last month and installed everything then. KDE worked fine at that
time.
It doesn't *seem* like a problem with my setup, but it could be. Anyone
have any ideas?
Thanks
Steve
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