On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:55:23 -0600 Mitja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I am n Etch. > BTW, what is interesting. I am a Linux user very long time but i am rookie > still :). I start with Linux long time ago and than I did SuSE from 6.4 if I > remember correct but I like Debian :) and I am here again... well. I just had a rather unpleasant experience trying to shoehorn the kde 3.5 packages from alioth into etch. It's not working at all - it's trying to remove all my kde packages. I also saw that duplicate (same file shared by 2 packages) thing with libdjvulibre - so I removed that and tried to install kdelibs-data - while that work, could not install any more kde stuff. It did manage to install only a few kde 3.5 things - by no means the whole thing - which I thought odd, after I did an aptitude update && aptitude upgrade after first adding the alioth site to /etc/apt/sources.list. And the things that it did install are very strange choices - things like kdeartwork-emoticons, kdeartwork-misc, kdeedu-data -- and not the binary packages that these things use. Now I'm really in a quagmire. Nearly all of gnome and KDE are *gone*! I am managing to get gnome-desktop installed, but getting KDE back is going to be a headache. I'm considering to next try your suggestion of removing anything that's part of kde 3.5, then reinstalling kde3.5, but there's a libdgvulibre15 that's instaled now - version 3.5.16-1 - dpkg codes on the left are 'ic' - those are config files installed, right? dpkg -l and a few grep pipes tell me what of kde 3.5 is installed easily enough. So, I'll give your suggestion a try. Now doing that (aptitude remove "the 5 packages from kde 3.5" aptitude tries to remove 137 packages. From the error display it would seem most of gnome wants to be removed because I want to remove these files. Obviously aptitude thinks that way down deep, there's a mutual dependency but I cannot seem to find it. help.... :( -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
