On April 13, 2005 09:35 pm, Silvan wrote: > On a whim, I grabbed the Alioth packages and gave the new KDE a > whirl. > > I wiped out my development environment in so doing. The dist-upgrade > took down a huge number of -dev packages. It looked like it was > going to balance out trading this for that and come out OK in the > end, so I went ahead and did it anyway. I probably shouldn't have. > > At this point I'm stuck trying to get kdelibs4-dev reinstalled. It > won't go because libqt3-mt-dev is uninstallable. This, in turn, is > uninstallable because of a tangle of broken X-related dependencies. > It's a real mess. > > I tried adding experimental to the brew, but it didn't help. I'm > pretty much stuck at this point, since I can't dist-upgrade back. I > could restore yesterday's backup, but I prefer moving forward. > > It looks like X switched from XFree86 to X.Org, and it also looks > like QT has switched from libqt3-mt to libqt3c102-mt. However, > libqt3-mt-dev >= 3.3.3 is a dependency of the Alioth kdelibs4-dev, > and there's no libqt3c102-mt-dev either. > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libarts1-dev (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going > to be installed > Depends: libopenexr-dev (>= 1.2.1) but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.3) but it is not going > to be installed > Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be > installed > > > > And it's not installable: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it > is not going to be installed > Depends: libxrandr-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: libxmu-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: libx11-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: libxt-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be > installed or > libgl-dev > Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be > installed or > libglu1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be > installed or > libglu-dev > Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be > installed Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed > Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed > > > I can't install the other kdelibs4-dev dependencies either. More X > stuff: #apt-get install libarts1-dev libopenexr-dev libxrender-dev > [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libarts1-dev: Depends: libqt3-mt-dev (>= 3.3.3) but it is not going > to be installed > libopenexr-dev: Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be > installed or > libgl-dev > Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be > installed or > libglu-dev > libxrender-dev: Depends: libx11-dev but it is not going to be > installed
Try apt-get install libarts1-dev=1.4.0-0pre2 kdelibs4-dev=4:3.4.0-0pre3 .... with all the other packages you list on the line at the same time and it should work. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation. GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc
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