KDE Won't Upgrade -- Help

I've been attempting to upgrade to KDE 3.1b2 for the past two days. What is stalling me are dependencies. When upgrading with aptitude, a long slew of dependency violations occur. As I've not finished resolving these I have to ask, has anyone else had problems doing a straight upgrade from 3.1b1

KDE Can't Start

I use KDE 3.1b2. I made a mistake last night while trying to fix a problem where KMail would continually crash after opening. Even after editing the kmailrc file (something about the path to openpgp was causing the problem...), I could not use KMail. My first thought was to delete the .kderc dir

Konqueror VS Galeon -- Rendering???

I run Debian unstable with KDE 3.1b2 from shakti.cx and upgrade nightly. I can look at a web page (say www.slashdot.org) in Konqueror side-by-side with Galeon, and the output from Konqueror is a poor comparison to the output of the Mozilla engine. Is this a byproduct of the seemingly-more-accurat

Browser Rendering Uncovered

The cause and the correction to my recent browser rendering woes is on display today at The Register. The http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27788.html";>article discusses how to "purtify" font display throughout the KDE environment. The techniques are probably applicable to other window mana

KMail Could Not Start pop3 Session

For the last two days, KMail could not start a pop3 session to collect my e-mail. I verified that all was good with my internet connection. What could cause this? Bob

Only root can play sound

I'm not at my box and so must re-type the error message from memory. My box can only play sound if root has logged in, otherwise "a device to play sound cannot be found" is reported. I can post details later after work but any preliminary ideas? Bob

KDE User Can't Access Home Partition

The user "oracle" on my system cannot access their home partition /home/oracle. The user is of group oracle and I have system wide readable /home directories. There is a lot of downloaded information in the directory so I did not simply wish to delete and recreate the user/directory. Any ideas?

Creating a private folder?`

I need to create a private partition to which files can be placed. Security needs to be enforced so that password entry is required. The partition file system needs to be encrypted. Does KDE provide any tools suitable to this need? Any ideas are most appreciated! Bob Tilley