I run Potato. This concerns qt and kde, but I may well encounter a similar problem with other combinations.
I need to replace qt1g with libqtxxx in order to upgrade part of kde. If I use apt-get, I'm told the newer package depends on libqtxxx and that this is 'not installable'. I download libqtxxx and use dselect to install it. A conflict message says it conflicts with qt1g and I can go no further. Trying to uninstall qt1g with dselect marks all kde packages for removal as they depend on it. Turning to dpkg from the command line. This also fails as I expected, but the error message refers to 'considering removing qt1g in favour of libqtxxx - no! cannot remove qt1g (--auto-deconfig will help)' I've read man dpkg, but do not see how I can proceed and am reluctant to try using an option I don't understand or trying to 'force'. Clearly, I can uninstall all my kde packages, make the qt changes, install the upgrades and reconfigure, but this seems a drastic way to go. What do others do in such circumstances? Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. John.
