Hi, Debian/KDE folks, I just did a dselect update/install on my machine, which is running potato plus several extra apt sources. Here is my sources.list; note especially the XFree86 4.02 packages and the 2.4 kernel support packages:
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf402_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf402_potato/all/ deb http://www.winehq.com/~ovek/ stable/ Updated KDE packages were downloaded and unpacked. However, the configure step failed with the following assertion: dpkg: /home/wichert/debian/dpkg-1.6.15/main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. The following packages are left in a "broken" state: kview, kdebase-libs, kdelibs3, libkmid, libkonq3, libqt2-gl, libqt2.2-gl, kdelibs3-crypto, konqueror, kdebase, kdm, konsole This is reproducible: "apt-get install -f" produces the same message, as does purging and reinstalling the broken packages. KDE sort of works, but funny things happen (Konqueror as a Web browser crashes on startup for instance, though its file manager function works). Is this peculiar to my installation, and is there a reasonable workaround? Thanks in advance for your help, -- Fred Gray