On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:40:55AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 ran into this last weekend. The problem at that time was that libkmid is dependent explicitly on libglib1.3-12. That's not available any more, being superceded by libglib1.3-13. What I did was track down a copy of libglib1.3-12xxxx.deb, and manually install it using dpkg. THEN I installed libkmid, then I installed KDE. Fundamentally, when I run into problems like yours in unstable, I simply try installing down the chain until I find out what the holdup is. If, for instance, you had followed up your first failure with apt-get install libkmid You would have found the dependency, then tried to install the libglib1.3-12 and run into the same thing I did. You'll need, perhaps, to do the same with the kdebase3-audiolibs (and you do want to track kdebase3, I'm pretty sure). Best of luck! .brian -- Brian Bilbrey "The ships hung in the sky in [EMAIL PROTECTED] much the same way that bricks don't." www.orbdesigns.com Doug Adams, H2G
