On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:43, Pietro Calogero wrote: > To sum up: > Newbie with Woody 3.0 installed and running kernel 2.4.18 on IBM > Thinkpad770 (256MB RAM, 20GB HD) > Downloaded KDE 3.1 .debs from KDE.org, including packages.gz, created > similar directory structure on local HD. > Ran deselect, changed to mounted filesystem, got it to identify > directory for KDE 3.1. > Attempted to install all available packeages in directory; crashed > KDE 2.2 (yes, like an idiot I was trying to upgrade KDE while running > KDE 2.2). Crashed the window manager, relogged into GNOME, attempted > to continue, but dselect returns an error message when trying to > install brokenly-installed packages. > Cannot figure out how to update /etc/apt/sources.list to include the > directory I created on the HD
Well ,if this is any help to you . . . If your packages are in /home/pietro/debs/ then a simple way to use the local packages with apt would be: cd /home/pietro/debs/ touch file dpkg-scanpackages . file|gzip>Packages.gz add: deb file:/home/pietro/debs ./ to your /etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update You will want to remove KDE 2.2.2 first before installing these new ones. Removing kdelibs3 would probably get rid of many of them, then you could use dpkg -l|grep 2.2.2 and dpkg -l|grep arts to see what is left to remove manually. If apt-get is borked because of being tied up with conflicts you will have to use dpkg --purge --force-depends <packages> now. Have a look at http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README for other hints. Hope this helps, Robert_L
