On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:49:59PM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: > The instructions located at http://calc.cx/kde.txt expressly state that you > should NEVER use --force stating that if you do 'you are likely to > permanentaly break your system requiring a full reinstall'. > > There is a good reason for this, if dpkg is telling you there is a conflict > between packages you had better believe it!! If dpkg is reporting a > conflict the 'safe' option is to purge the installed conflicting package and > then reattempt installation. As pointed out elsewhere this maywell mean that > you will also be forced to uninstall other related packages such as xmms or > other KDE packages, but such is life on the bleeding edge. > > Remember these packages have not yet been integrated to provide a smooth > upgrade path from the Debian KDE2 packages to Debian KDE3 packages. The > smooth upgrade should (will) be provided by the Debian KDE3 packages when > they are offically included in the Debian distribution. Until then these > packages which you are installing are not guarenteed to upgrade from KDE2 > smoothly. Hence the instructions to purge all kdelibs3 and libarts packages > before you even attempt installation.
Exactly, I guarantee that you can not upgrade from KDE2 to the current debs since they have no (or very few) conflicts in the control file. I am adding as many as I know about in my 3rd set of debs that I am working on currently. I will not upload debs into sid until I am reasonably sure that I have taken care of all the upgrade issues. Thanks, Chris Cheney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
