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Friday, November 14th 2003, 11:24pm

KDE - Broken Packages

Can't install full KDE, only KDESKTOP 4:3.1.1. apt-get broken packages using these sources.list settings:
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.4/Debian stable main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
deb ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian testing main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-f$
deb http://debian.rutgers.edu/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.rutgers.edu/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.rutgers.edu/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://debian.rutgers.edu/ unstable main non-free contrib

Tried using synaptic, no difference. Can't resolve broken dependencies:
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
Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed

Misc. info:
uname -a 2.4.21
I can only run the old desktop now, before I a hard disk failure, I had the newer version installed. I reinstall Debian, now I can't install KDE. I don't knew whether it's something I'm doing wrong or Debain no longer has all the necessary packages.

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Saturday, November 15th 2003, 3:14pm

Do you get an error message from apt-get or does it simply not know about the more recent version?

You could try a different mirror. I use
deb ftp://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody main
and apt-cache polic kdesktop shows it knows about the 3.1.4 version

Cheers,
_
Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

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Sunday, November 16th 2003, 1:11am

Broken Packages - Not sure if it's really an error or not

Not sure if you'd call it an error message, here's more info:
kdesktop:
Installed: 4:3.1.3-1
Candidate: 4:3.1.4-0woody1
Version Table:
4:3.1.4-0woody1 0
500 http://download.at.kde.org woody/main Packages
500 http://download.kde.org stable/main Packages
*** 4:3.1.3-1 0
500 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 ftp://ftp.it.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
500 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 http://debian.rutgers.edu testing/main Packages
500 http://debian.rutgers.edu unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I added the line you mentioned in sources.list, here's what I get when I run apt-get install kde or apt-get install kdesktop (after adding the line you mentioned):
apt-get install kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

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
Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

====================
apt-get install kdesktop
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdesktop: Depends: libkonq4 (>= 4:3.1.4) but 4:3.1.3-1 is to be installed
Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Can you give me any more suggestions? I appreciate the help, thanks...

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Tuesday, November 18th 2003, 12:19am

Ok, now I'm at 3.1.4

Found a solution to broken packages here:
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE

Now, I might try upgrading to 3.2, not sure yet.