I just tried a fresh install of Sid & KDE. Package "kde" refused to install, (although "kdebase" did install), because of a couple nonessential packages. How can this be overcome?
I did a fresh install of Woody. Then: apt-get install dist-upgrade - to Sid. then used tasksel to install X That all worked. Then: "apt-get -s install kde" and "apt-get install kde" both failed with: apt-get -s install kde Reading Package Lists... 0 Building Dependency Tree... 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. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: libkmid or libkmid-alsa but it is not going to be installed or libkmid-bin but it is not installable Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages apt-get -f install kde - got the same result. Now, I don't _need_ audio & sound right now. I'd just like to get everything else but those packages. Can that be done??? Note: I then _did_ install: apt-get install kdebase which worked, but didn't even install konqueror! (and almost no other packages either). :( apt-get -s install kdebase Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdebase-libs kdelibs3 kdelibs3-bin kdewallpapers libbz2-1.0 libfam0 libjpeg62 libkonq3 liblcms libmng1 libqt2 libtiff3g libxml2 libxslt1 The following NEW packages will be installed: kdebase kdebase-libs kdelibs3 kdelibs3-bin kdewallpapers libbz2-1.0 libfam0 libjpeg62 libkonq3 liblcms libmng1 libqt2 libtiff3g libxml2 libxslt1 0 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I really want to install the "kde" metapackage, so I can get most everything installed in one easy step. How can I get that accomplished now? Is there any way? Or, does someone need to file a bug report, and have ccheney or someone fix the packages? Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com