Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: > So, why have I now written such a long message? Well, I feel obliged > to explain my self. (I also apologise if my Drastic sounded a bit... > Drastic. But, it is a good word. And I do love words.) :-) > Earlier in this thread was written the following: > > KDEVER=$(dpkg

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread David R. Litwin
> The problem is that some files are contained in two different > packages. By forcing an installation of a package with an overlapping > file that file is now overwritten. The other package also thinks it > owns that file. That is an inconsistent state. (And off the top if > my head I don't kn

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: > Jan Schledermann wrote: > > In your case you may want to force the installation of kdeedu-data and > > konq-plugins by doing > > > > dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data > > dpkg -i -force-all /var/cache/apt/archives/konq-plugins > > apt-get install (or

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread David R. Litwin
> I don't think that your assessment of the problem is correct, as I have all > 3 packages installed: > > kdebase-data4:3.4.0-pre3kde base data > kdeedu-data 4:3.4.0-pre2shared data for the edutainment pkg > konq-plugins4:3.4.0-pre2plug-ins for konq

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-07 Thread Jan Schledermann
David R. Litwin wrote: > > I think I actually know what the problem is: Debian Sarge is telling > apt-get (or aptitude) to install these two packages: kdeedu-data and > konq-plugins. However, both of these packages have been replaced (by > kdebase-data and kdelibs-data respectively). So, what I r

Re: Upgrading KDE

2005-08-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:18:08AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth > repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get > dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I > already had. So, I did apt-ge

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
David R. Litwin wrote: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3_all.deb > > /var/cache/apt/archives/konq-plugins_4%3a3.3.2-4_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > I think the problem is here: konq-plu

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread David R. Litwin
> You've gone beyond the official Debian repositories; expect breakage. I installed kde from Alioth once before and it worked perfectly. But, I understand that I should expect some breakage, despite KDE now being at 3.4.2. But, some times, a bit of risk is needed in life, yes? > 1. You might try

Re: Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-06 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: >On 01/08/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth >>repository in my source.list >> You've gone beyond the official Debian repositories; expect breakage. >>but there are two problems: >> >>Y

Apt-Get is Not Working (Was Upgrading KDE)

2005-08-05 Thread David R. Litwin
On 01/08/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth > repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get > dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I > already had. So, I did apt-get install

Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread David R. Litwin
I have upgraded KDE (mostly). There is the problem. I put the Alioth repository in my source.list and proceeded to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. This gave me KDE 3.4.1; but only those things which I already had. So, I did apt-get install kde. It downloaded all of the packages, but there are two probl

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
roberto wrote: > --- hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > >>Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in >>/etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or >>experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get >>install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-13 Thread roberto
--- hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in > /etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or > experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get > install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or use aptitude, if y

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-11 Thread hacker
Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or use aptitude, if you prefer). bye On 5/10/05, roberto <[EMAIL PROTEC

upgrading kde

2005-05-10 Thread roberto
Hello, i want to upgrade kde 3.1 to some newer release via aptitude but if i make "u" i do not find it among upgradable packages, only among installed ones. How can i achieve this? Thankx Roberto ___ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più diverte

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread Douglas Ward
downtime null wrote: in my very bried testing, everything seems to be up to date and in working order now. I remember that, in 2002/3 when KDE 3.x was first released in Debian, there were problems for some users moving from 2.2->3.x, or kde.org packages -> official Debian packages; almost all of

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread downtime null
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 01:47, Alan Chandler wrote: > One thing to try is aptitude. Its a text based. but cursor controlled front > end to apt. You can use this to wander round the dependency tree looking to > see which packages will not install and why (or which will not and why). > aptitude i

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread James Vahn
{replying late to a message in linux.debian.user} >> On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: >> > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but >> > apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just >> > overlooking. When I type the comma

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible > experience with it and would not recommend it; many > packages got downloaded but did not automatically > install due to the maze of dependencies. Efforts to > "force" them to install broke the whole system

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 19:15, downtime null wrote: > Hello Debian Users! > > Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not > familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I > switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its > pack

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:15:49PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt > is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just > overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get : > Sorry, but the follo

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Dickner
--- Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another thing you could try: 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. > That *should* > bring your entire system up-to-date with the current > Sarge. > > Jason Jason, Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible experience with it and would not recommend it; many

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-11 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello list! > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: > > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but > > apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just > > overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get > > [..

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 11 November 2004 03:24, downtime null wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: ... > > > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but > > > apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's somethi

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:24:24PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > I'm currently running KDE 2.2.2 as reported by dpkg. I have a ton of > packages that are being held back though. I could possibly track down > the problem by manually adding dependencies to the command line, but > that defeats having

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread downtime null
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: > > Hello Debian Users! > > > > Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not > > familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I > > switched to

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:15:49PM -0600, downtime null wrote: > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but apt > is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just > overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get : This might be a dumb re

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: > Hello Debian Users! > > Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not > familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I > switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its > p

upgrading KDE

2004-11-10 Thread downtime null
Hello Debian Users! Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its package management and I know that it uses binary packages (as opposed to

Re: upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Andy Saxena
On Monday July 23 2001 06:26, Rodolfo Canet wrote: > Hi all > > Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kdebase, > etc...) > > Thanks.. 02:38pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-programming 536 $ dpkg -l "*kde*" | grep "^ii" ii kdeartwork-sty 2.2-beta1-1widget styles released

upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Rodolfo Canet
Hi all Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kdebase, etc...) Thanks.. -- Rodolfo

Re: upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Mathias De Belder
> Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kde?, > kdebase?, etc...) apt-get install task-kde

upgrading kde?

2001-07-23 Thread Rodolfo Canet
Hi all Which package should I apt-get install to get the newest kde? (kde?, kdebase?, etc...) Thanks.. -- Rodolfo