Package: task-kde-desktop Severity: normal Running Testing and trying to install KDE by tasksel gets me unmet dependencies:
$ sudo tasksel -t #select KDE, use the apt-get options directly: $ LANG=C sudo apt-get -q -y -o APT::Install-Recommends=true -o APT::Get::AutomaticRemove=true -o APT::Acquire::Retries=3 install task-kde- desktop Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: task-kde-desktop : Depends: kde-standard but it is not going to be installed Depends: sddm but it is not going to be installed Recommends: kdeaccessibility but it is not going to be installed Recommends: k3b but it is not going to be installed Recommends: k3b-i18n but it is not going to be installed Recommends: kdesudo but it is not going to be installed Recommends: libreoffice-kde but it is not going to be installed Recommends: apper but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. My installation is fine, no broken dependencies, no packages holded. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)