On Friday 21 February 2003 08:32 pm, John Schmidt wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 9:16 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > arts: Depends: libartsc0 (>= 1.1.0-0woody4) but it is not going to > > be installed > > Depends: libarts1 (>= 1.1.0-0woody4) but 1.0.5a-0woody1 is to > > be installed > > <snip> > > Yes, you should use dpkg --purge --force package_to_remove. You can't > reliably do an update for kde from the official kde packages to the > unofficial kde packages found on at kde.org. The packager Ralph Nolden > recommends that you remove stuff before installing the new stuff. > Familiarize yourself with dpkg, especially the force, since it will > remove stuff even if there are dependencies. You may have to do it > package by package in the worst case, but hopefully, you can remove the > few offending ones, and the use apt-get --purge remove (the other > packages) which should help automate things. > > John Thanks John, that did the trick. Hunting down every last KDE app was not one of my funner evenings! But it did the trick. I also deleted /etc/kde2 and /etc/kde3, and /user/lib/kde3. Then used only deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian woody main for my KDE sources. Installed the pieces I wanted, and everything works. I even have Quanta. Doubtless experienced Debian users know this, apt-get install <package> --dry-run is a nice headache-preventer. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.7 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
