On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 20:22, Greg Madden wrote: > On Wednesday 10 November 2004 05:15 pm, downtime null wrote: > > Hello Debian Users! > > > > Let me start by saying that I am new to Debian, not Linux. I'm not > > familiar with some of the conventions and tools specific to Debian. I > > switched to Debian because I've always heard great things about its > > package management and I know that it uses binary packages (as > > opposed to Gentoo, which has fantastic package management, but only > > uses source). > > > > I would like to upgrade to at least KDE 3 (3.3 would be nice), but > > apt is giving me fits. I'm sure it's something simple that I'm just > > overlooking. When I type the command 'apt-get -f install kde', I get > > : > > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > 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: kde-core but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > > > The only line I have in my sources.list is : > > > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib > > > > I'm using testing because stable seems to use thoroughly tested but > > very outdated packages. Shouldn't the '-f' switch cause apt-get to > > resolve the dependencies? > > > > As an alternative, and I hate to even suggest this, is it generally > > considered a Bad Thing (tm) to use RPMs in Debian? > > > > I'm having some other issues with my system, but I'd like to get this > > resolved first and take things one step at a time. > > > > Any help in this matter is appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > KDE 3.3.0 is what is in Testing/Sarge right now, unless kde 3.3.1 has > begun to creep into testing, It should just work, so there may be other > issues, if as you mention you only have testing in your sources.list. > > You mention upgrading to kde3.3, what are you upgrading from ? Just say > no to rpm's. > -- > Greg C. Madden > >
To answer Jason's question: It's not a stupid response. I in technical support and understand that it's impossible to determine someone's technical aptitude until you start asking questions. That being said, yes, I ran 'apt-get update' first. I'm currently running KDE 2.2.2 as reported by dpkg. I have a ton of packages that are being held back though. I could possibly track down the problem by manually adding dependencies to the command line, but that defeats having a package management system. I expected as much about RPMs. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
