Backports is meant to install a package using old libs. Why does it not work for kate?
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf Acquire::http::Proxy ""; Acquire::ftp::Proxy ""; APT::Default-Release stretch; $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free $ sudo apt -t=stretch-backports install kate Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kate : Depends: ktexteditor-katepart but it is not going to be installed Depends: plasma-framework but it is not going to be installed Depends: qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons but it is not going to be installed Depends: qml-module-qtquick-layouts but it is not going to be installed Depends: qml-module-qtquick2 but it is not going to be installed Depends: kio but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5bookmarks5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5completion5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5configgui5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.98.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5crash5 (>= 5.15.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5dbusaddons5 (>= 4.97.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5guiaddons5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5iconthemes5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5jobwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5kiocore5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5kiofilewidgets5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5kiowidgets5 (>= 5.5.0+git20150101.0309+15.04) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5newstuff5 (>= 5.27.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5parts5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5plasma5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5service-bin but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5service5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5texteditor5 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5textwidgets5 (>= 5.0.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5wallet-bin but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5wallet5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5windowsystem5 (>= 4.96.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 4.98.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org
